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Cobb County removed Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' from school libraries, citing graphic depictions of child rape and incest, adding to more than 30 titles pulled since 2023. Superintendent Chris Ragsdale defended the removal as protecting students and preserving parental choice, while free-speech advocates called it censorship.
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An exclusive interview with Faraji Hannah-Jones defends his and Nikole Hannah-Jones’s choice to enroll their daughter in struggling Brooklyn public schools and compares his wife to Martin Luther King. The article stresses contradictions, including Nikole’s admitted regret and their daughter’s academic struggles, while using mocking language toward the couple and the 1619 Project.
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The article argues that colleges should reinstate SAT/ACT requirements because standardized test scores strongly predict college completion, and test-optional policies leave students unprepared. It cites UC faculty complaints and an AEI report to claim that ignoring tests harms students and that universities have a moral obligation to restore testing.
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This opinion piece criticizes Republican candidate Bo French for remarks about the racial makeup of Texas Longhorns fans, citing Ben Shapiro’s response that JD Vance’s family is Indian. It argues that race-blind admissions were a major conservative and libertarian legal victory, and that right-wing identitarians are betraying that heritage by complaining about high-performing immigrant groups.
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A new private high school in Manhattan’s Financial District charges $150,000 a year and promises to refund four years’ tuition if students do not launch a business earning $1 million in profit by graduation. The school uses AI-driven morning lessons and afternoon entrepreneurship work, and it operates outside New York City’s new restrictions on AI in public schools.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's administration quietly ended a rulemaking process that would have required scholastic sports to be divided by sex, prompting criticism from parents and conservatives. The article frames the decision as a sneaky rollback of protections for girls' sports and amplifies outrage from critics.
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A roundup of reader letters covers Yale students' views on Israel and China, New York's sports betting tax revenue, a holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder case, teachers unions, Trump's claim that the Butler shooting was a Democratic plot, and CBS News ratings. The letters mostly advance conservative arguments, though one criticizes Trump.
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A news piece attacks Nikole Hannah-Jones over a new essay saying she sent her daughter to a struggling Brooklyn school as a 'sacrifice.' It portrays the school as dangerous and academically failing while mocking Hannah-Jones’s motives and the 1619 Project.
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This op-ed argues that colleges are circumventing the Supreme Court's affirmative action ban by using geography, zip codes, and neighborhood data as race proxies. It urges the Treasury Department, IRS, Congress, and state legislatures to treat such facially neutral criteria as illegal discrimination when adopted to produce racial results.
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This opinion piece argues that decades of climate doom messaging have left young people fearful and reluctant to have children, while citing greening, crop yields, cleaner air, and poverty reduction as evidence the alarm is overblown. It urges parents to challenge school climate curricula and promote a message of innovation and progress over panic.
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Critics attack Nikole Hannah-Jones for deliberately sending her daughter to low-performing New York City schools as an activism statement, after she wrote that she feared she failed her child. The article amplifies conservative criticism, calling the 1619 Project 'controversial' and the decision a 'game' or 'sacrifice' that backfired.
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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.