What becomes of Times Square when you take away hundreds of thousands of cheering, shivering New Year’s Eve revelers? It may no longer be the…
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Ted DeLaney, Conscience of a Roiled University, Dies at 77
He worked his way up from custodian to department head at Washington and Lee, then a led a reckoning with the Confederate general its very…
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With Remote Learning, a 12-Year-Old Knows Her English Is Slipping Away
When Taniya Ria moved to the Bronx from Bangladesh in 2019, she didn’t know a word of English. Within months, Taniya, now 12, was translating…
View More With Remote Learning, a 12-Year-Old Knows Her English Is Slipping AwayA Cheerleader’s Vulgar Message Prompts a First Amendment Showdown
The key precedent is from a different era. In 1969, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the Supreme Court allowed students to…
View More A Cheerleader’s Vulgar Message Prompts a First Amendment ShowdownA Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning
In one sense, the public shaming of Ms. Groves underscores the power of social media to hold people of all ages accountable, with consequences at…
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Opinion | What Biden and Harris Owe the Poor
Before he was elected in November, Joe Biden promised that his “theory of change” for reforming the economy would be “ending poverty.” He pledged to…
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Disadvantaged Students More Likely to Be Learning Remotely, Study Finds
NWEA, a nonprofit research group, warned in May that the spring school closures could cost students a third of their expected annual progress in reading…
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West Point Cheating Scandal: What to Know
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Public Schools Face Funding ‘Death Spiral’ as Enrollment Drops
SACRAMENTO — In Texas, the Austin public schools might lay off 200 people and still not fill the financial hole created by the coronavirus. Gov.…
View More Public Schools Face Funding ‘Death Spiral’ as Enrollment DropsOpinion | Reopen Schools, and Reform Them
The Hunter students are also raising a more immediate concern, about the harm that could be caused by convening thousands of teenagers from across the…
View More Opinion | Reopen Schools, and Reform ThemOpinion | Maybe Congress Needs More People From the College of Hard Knocks
For now, it seems to matter little that Republicans have offered little by way of policy to restore the dignity of work. They’ve tapped into…
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