Civil Rights Groups Challenge Harvard’s Legacy Admissions
Jose Luis Magana/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three Massachusetts-based civil rights groups are challenging donor and legacy admissions at Harvard University, arguing that the practice gives an unfair boost to mostly white students whose family members are either alumni or wealthy donors. The…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Universities’ Affirmative Action Programs
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court ruled today in a 6-3 decision that the use of race in college admissions violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and thus is unconstitutional, dealing a serious blow to…
Ron DeSantis Has Launched a New Battle in His War to Control Public Universities
Shawn Thew/EFE via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Gov. Ron DeSantis is, famously, on a crusade to transform Florida’s education system into one that projects his own ideology. What’s taken up fewer national headlines is that one of the institutions standing in the way…
MAGA Groups Claim Schools Are Too Woke to Teach Reading Correctly
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ten years ago, Marilyn Muller began to suspect that her kindergarten daughter, Lauryn, was struggling with reading. Lauryn, a bright child, seemed mystified by the process of sounding out simple words. Still, the teachers at the top-rated Massachusetts public…
Climate Deniers Are Hounding Educators Again
A girl works on an Earth Day project.Davide Zanin/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Carolyn McGrath thought she was ready for her testimony in front of the New Jersey Department of Education. An art teacher, she had dressed in a jaunty polka-dot blouse and chunky green necklace,…
Here Is All the Evidence You Needed That Drag Bans Are About Erasing Trans Existence
Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto/Associated Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, Butte, Montana became the first documented place to legally cancel an event because the speaker is trans. As NBC Montana reported, a lawyer with Butte-Silver Bow County informed the local library that its LGBTQ history event…