"Belief trumps evidence" is a phrase that seems suited for a car bumper. Unfortunately, it is a phrase that drives some educational policies and practices. Take acceleration, for example, which is the ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. An acceleration clause is a contract provision that allows a lender to require a borrower to ...

Employees at Toyota dealerships witnessed and duplicated sudden acceleration in the company’s vehicles several times in the last decade, yet the automaker did not report the findings to regulators, ...