Department Of Ed Fumbles Apology For Misspelling W.E.B. Du Bois' Name

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The Department of Education apologized on Sunday for misspelling W.E.B. Du Bois' name in a tweet posted hours earlier — but its apology contained another misspelling.

The Department of Education's original tweet misspelled the surname of Du Bois—a black historian, sociologist, civil rights activist and co-founder of the NAACP—as "DeBois." It corrected that spelling in another tweet posted three and a half hours later, but did not delete the original post.



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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life. – W.E.B. DeBois




In its subsequent apology, the Department of Education misspelled the word "apologies" as "apologizes."

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