Yesterday, I pointed out that Education Cities and GreatSchools, which had reported that North Carolina had widened its achievement gap more than any other state, retracted their Education Equality Index ranking.

To their credit, the News & Observer acknowledged the retraction today.

Just for fun, the following is a sample of the some of the comments that the original story produced:

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