How the Surveillance of Black Hair Can Kill a Child’s Spirit
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In January 2020, Barbers Hill High School in Texas made national headlines after suspending a Black student over his dreadlocks, ordering DeAndre Arnold to cut them if he wanted to attend graduation. The incident partly inspired the CROWN Act,…
Moms for Liberty Is Taking Over Banned Books Week
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week, a tradition that started in 1982. This year, the theme is “Let Freedom Read!” in honor of record-breaking efforts to censor books now sweeping the nation’s libraries and schools. Yesterday, I…
What Does It Mean to Protect Children?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Campbell County Public Library is a handsome, low-slung building in the center of the small city of Gillette, Wyoming. Steps lead up to two sturdy stone columns that support an overhang, where patrons can sit on benches protected…
The Pandemic Pause on Student Loans Has Come to an End. Can Biden’s New Plan Offer Relief?
Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After more than three years, millions of Americans will be getting bills this month from the Department of Education as federal student loan repayments restart. Repayments were paused in March 2020 as a response to the…
In a National First, California May Ban “Willful Defiance” Suspensions
Robin Rayne/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A new bill has reached the desk of California Gov. Gavin Newsom that would bar the state’s public and charter schools from suspending or expelling students in sixth through twelfth grades for “willful defiance,” a largely undefined…
The Real Crisis Driving America’s Teacher Shortage
This article was co-published with EdSurge. EdSurge is a nonprofit newsroom that covers education through original journalism and research. Sign up for their newsletters. Carrie Rodgers gestures toward the silver medallion sitting atop her fridge, then waves it off. It’s nothing really, she shrugs. Still, she reaches for the disc and sets it on the kitchen…