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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is proposing to ban burqas and niqabs in Italian schools, cap foreign students per classroom, and require Italian lessons for some parents as part of an integration plan. The article largely relays Meloni’s framing and quotes without including opposing perspectives.
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A Dear Abby column features a public school teacher complaining that parents, including one who texted throughout a conference, do not pay enough attention to their children. Abby agrees the parent was rude and advises teachers to tell parents to silence and put away phones during conferences. Other letters involve family rent and asking adult daughters to help pay for vacation.
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The editorial criticizes Columbia University for closing College Walk to the public, arguing it avoids confronting disruptive pro-Palestinian protests and harms neighborhood residents, especially the elderly and disabled. It calls on Columbia to restore order and reopen the gates rather than restrict access.
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The opinion piece argues that New York teachers unions, especially the UFT and NYSUT, are opposing a federal school-choice scholarship tax credit that could benefit private and parochial school teachers who pay union dues. It accuses AFL-CIO leader Mario Cilento of betraying those members and says unions put institutional interests ahead of members and students.
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UK students faced a campus accommodation crisis that forced some to defer places, commute long distances, couch-surf, or seek help from homeless charities. The article blames universities for recruiting more students than they can house affordably while noting financial pressures from a drop in international students.
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Rich Lowry praises 'The Golden Thread,' a two-volume history of Western civilization by Allen Guelzo and James Hankins, as a counter-cultural achievement against academia's de-centering of the West. He argues the book can revive Western Civ instruction and help defend the tradition from those who view the West as uniquely evil.
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The article argues that California schools should be required to notify parents when a student expresses a different gender identity, criticizing a court ruling and state law that protect student privacy. It frames parental rights as paramount and portrays schools as improperly becoming a parallel family structure.
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A conservative commentary roundup highlights Census data on record-low poverty and rising median income as undercovered good news, argues AI is destabilizing higher education, and criticizes assisted-suicide laws, mainstream coverage of progressive Democratic candidates, and Canadian trade reorientation. It frames Trump-era economic data positively while casting Democrats and major media as radical or biased.
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The article reports that Nikole Hannah-Jones deliberately enrolled her daughter in struggling Brooklyn public schools as a racial-justice 'sacrifice,' and that her daughter later felt cheated and academically behind. It emphasizes Hannah-Jones's admissions of failure while criticizing the 1619 Project and 'woke' ideology.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote in a New York Times Magazine essay that she regrets sending her daughter to predominantly Black, high-poverty Brooklyn public schools, saying her daughter told her she did not get the education she wanted. The article focuses on Hannah-Jones's admission that she prioritized her ideals over her daughter's schooling and recalls her earlier framing of the choice as a challenge to segregation.
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The op-ed argues that requiring private schools in school choice programs to administer public school exams is a Trojan horse meant to undermine educational choice. It contends state tests like Tennessee's TCAP measure public-school curricula rather than private-school quality, and praises Tennessee's shift to nationally standardized tests and Arkansas's assessment flexibility. The piece calls for accountability through nationally normed tests instead of forcing comparability to public schools.
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The article argues Congress should pass the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act to preserve the NCAA’s educational-commercial model. It says lawsuits threaten college sports and that the bill would set uniform NIL rules, restrict transfers and pay-for-play, and grant antitrust immunity while adding athlete protections. It is an opinion piece advocating the legislation.