The Cycle of Punitive Justice Starts in Schools. Eric Butler Is Showing Kids and Teachers How to Break It.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When the phone rang at 7 a.m. on a January morning in 2010, Eric Butler learned that his sister had just been murdered. He had four sisters—“I’m the only boy in a sea of girls”—and 29-year-old Lanell was…
College Campuses Opened for Business, Now Scores of Students Have Covid-19
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The decision to re-open college campuses has been among the most contested battles in how to properly manage the coronavirus pandemic. Weeks into the fall semester, it’s becoming clearer by the day that schools are not…
Jared Kushner’s Rationale for Sending His Kids Back to School Is, At Best, Misleading
Jared Kusner has “no fear” about sending his kids back to school in the fall. The White House adviser and president’s son-in-law said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation that he “absolutely” plans to send his children to in-person classroom education, arguing that the risk of death for children who contract COVID-19 is low. “Children…
After the Pandemic, Medical Schools Will Never Be the Same. That Could Be a Good Thing.
Tufts University medical students in anatomy lab.Jessica Rinaldi/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.One day in June, medical student Jasmina Ehab carefully examined a child’s rash. For Ehab, who is in her fourth year at the University of Southern Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine, this was an…
A School District in Georgia Says Requiring Masks Is Impractical. But It Already Enforces a Lengthy Dress Code.
SDI Productions/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As students in some states are starting to trickle back into schools, those very institutes of learning have become the latest battleground for the Great Mask Debate. (I use the term “debate” loosely, and sarcastically.) On Thursday, the debate hit…
Parents Who Teach at the University of Alabama’s Nursing School Were Practically Encouraged to Quit
sshepard/GETTY For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Suzanne Prevost, the Dean of University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing, sent out an email on Thursday that elicited shockwaves through the university’s faculty. In the email, which went out to the nursing school’s faculty, Dean Prevost explained that she…