The line between "it's okay you lost your cool" and "abuse is never okay" can be a hard one for parenting journalists to walk. Melinda Wenner Moyer does it beautifully in this new post questioning gentle/modern parenting's lionization of staying "zen." melindawmoyer.substack.com/p/calmness-i...

There’s a big gap between the narrative about higher ed and the data, explains @mattbarnum.bsky.social for @chalkbeat.org. Tuition is actually more affordable, and both the value of a bachelor’s degree and four-year college enrollment remain “near historic highs.” www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

Over 25 years, the # of youth behind bars dropped 75%. Why? Fewer arrests for drug offenses, diverting those arrested from jail into education & treatment programs, & shorter sentences & more parole for the imprisoned, says Yale prof James Forman Jr. for @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m...

I have been waiting for someone to write this article for years, and Jessica Winter knocks the ball out of the freaking park: “much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

New: In September, the Trump administration canceled more than $20 million for teacher-training programs at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions. Now some college students training for teaching careers may have to take out loans or drop out altogether. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

“Melissa Ann Pinney photographed the everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools … as [students] navigate identity, community and the many transformations of growing up.” @npr.org www.npr.org/sections/the...

“Melissa Ann Pinney photographed the everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools … as [students] navigate identity, community and the many transformations of growing up.” @npr.org www.npr.org/sections/the...

"An employee of a Chicago day care center and preschool was detained by immigration authorities at work as children were being dropped off on Wednesday." www.edweek.org/leadership/c...

"Food banks alone cannot make up for what would be lost for [SNAP recipients].... 'There is no way that we alone can make up for a $44 million food budget shortfall.... [It's different than a] natural disaster where we could rely on our sister food banks for support.'" www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g...

Bottom line: Health guidance matters. Even more reason to be worried about misinformation coming from the very top of our science communication establishment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

Why are Andrew Tate and his sound-alikes so appealing to boys and men? And is there any way to inoculate our sons against these toxic ideas? This multimedia masterwork from @theguardian.com helped me wrap my head around it all. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

The incomparable @nhannahjones.bsky.social on why firing federal workers isn’t just downsizing government, it’s downsizing rights - so much so that they’re effectively being eliminated. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/p...

Schools and districts are not equipped to deal with the dysregulation students are going to experience due to excessive hunger and familial stress over food insecurity. We’re just not in any way prepared.

“I’ve watched the lines on 2 graphs move in opposite directions: male loneliness climbs as male reading & writing scores drop. Are these trends correlated, & if so, can reading help address loneliness?” YES, says JT Torres of Harte Center for @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/opinion-youn...

The first installment of @chalkbeat.org’s new “ideas” column does not disappoint. @mattbarnum.bsky.social brings his characteristically open mind, thorough research, and even-handed assessment to education’s much-discussed “Southern surge.” www.chalkbeat.org/2025/10/28/l...

Anat Leonard-Wookey of LifeMoves with tips for school staff and parents on handling student homelessness compassionately and productively for @edsource.org. What should we do when “elementary-age kids … fall asleep in class,” wear soiled clothes, ask questions, and more? edsource.org/2025/support...

The choices we make now matter. History is coming for us. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The day after Donald Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, Israel struck more homes in Gaza City, reportedly killing dozens, including a three-month-old baby. In a new essay, @mosababutoha.bsky.social shares what’s happening to people he knows in Gaza.

This morning’s Big Story newsletter from @propublica.org: 📌 Oklahoma’s shift toward conservatism and Christianity in public schools has come amid abysmal test scores and high dropout rates. www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Trump admin changes to immigration courts are alegal in the same way that their aims are amoral. Today, “I don’t think the immigration-court system is a court system,” a former senior eoir official and military judge told E. Tammy Kim for @newyorker.com. www.newyorker.com/inside-donal...

Trump’s agents have detained innocent American citizens and residents, from children asleep in their homes to an Alderman’s staffers.   All demanding proof of citizenship, without probable cause, with only the victim’s skin color as a reason.   This isn't about crime or safety.

I am zero percent surprised. Citing graduation rate, when districts determine who graduates, is like using self-assessment to grade student essays. It tells you something but isn’t a reliable measure of quality. @jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social for @voiceofsandiego.org voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/21/2...

Bob Dylan on Like a Rolling Stone: “It’s like a ghost is writing a song like that. It gives you the song and it goes away, it goes away. You don’t know what it means. Except the ghost picked me to write the song…"

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

“Trump has attacked … universities using such a bewildering range of tools … that it’s hard to keep track of what the White House is trying to reform.” But his higher-ed agenda is clear: “fewer Black & Latino students.” @kevincarey1.bsky.social 4 @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“When federal officers roll through communities in the way the Supreme Court permitted, the constitutional rights of both citizens and noncitizens are inevitably violated.” @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org citing @davidjbier.bsky.social of @cato.org in incredibly important reporting.

“Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased & shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant.” @nicolefoy.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Yet more evidence that investing in wraparound care for preschoolers pays individual and societal dividends. (Adriana Heldiz & Adam Ashton of @calmatters.org reporting on research by @ucsandiego.bsky.social.) calmatters.org/education/20...

Funding matters. As one researcher explained to @npr.org, "his lab has been shut down, his grad students have left & his key technician ... was laid off." He said, “We feel like collateral damage" of the Trump admin’s attack on Cornell & higher ed. So does this kid's mom. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

“Oakland … is working with the Urban Peace Institute (& @greenlightfund.bsky.social) to create a training program for violence interrupters, unarmed civilians who de-escalate situations & prevent retaliation after … violence.” @roselynr.bsky.social 4 @oaklandside.org oaklandside.org/2025/10/14/o...

“The nation's special education services have been significantly impacted after Friday's mass layoffs within the Dept of Education and it could have an immediate impact on children with disabilities,” despite a federal law with bipartisan support demanding otherwise. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Research finds “stricter cellphone policies lead to happier teachers & … more engaged students.” “There’s a gradient,” said @angeladuckworth.bsky.social: “The farther the phone, the more restrictive the policy, the better the outcome.” ByEmilyTate for @edsurge.com www.edsurge.com/news/2025-10...

To beat back the march of authoritarianism in this country, we must demilitarize the police. There is no reason for these guys to be dressed in tactical gear and carrying assault weapons other than to terrorize a population (and satisfy their egos). It's completely incompatible with democracy.

The religious “Peach City is one of at least 12 private and microschools that have opened in Alabama since the creation of the state’s CHOOSE Act. The program allows eligible families to put public dollars toward private education.” Take a peek c/o @greezbock.bsky.social. www.al.com/educationlab...

“This is where the gentle-parenting approach I’d spent 4 years practising was supposed to come into play.” Less a how-to on family-centered parenting (it’s more complicated than “trust your instincts”) and more a call to action from Kayla Huszar for @macleans.bsky.social macleans.ca/longforms/my...

“Hardin, like many rural districts, relies on international teachers to fill out its staff,” b/c there aren’t enough American applicants. “Out of 150 teachers … about 30 are in the U.S. on teaching visas…. things are about to get even tougher.” Sequoia Carrillo 4 @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

“Top line is: it’s a win for Pfizer, but not a win for American patients” for whom prices will change little if at all. In related news, “Between 1998 and the middle of this year … Big Pharma spent more than $6.3 billion on lobbying.” @johncassidysays.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Beautifully rendered. Heather Shaw for @brevitymag.com c/o @markisero.bsky.social of #ArticleClub brevitymag.com/current-issu...

What’s driving Romancelandia’s success, and can other genres successfully emulate it? Spoiler alert: There’s a phenomenon called “an open-elite network.” @rebackermann.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

This Is Fascism

MIT showing the way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

There's "a paradox bedeviling the U.S. nursing landscape." Huge need for nurses, thanks to retirement & burnout, and yet, programs can't accommodate the "tens of thousands" of applicants b/c of lack of 2 things. @teresawatanabe.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/nurses-are-i...

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

“The movement against no-fault divorce is about walking back women’s rights & autonomy …. Although no-fault divorce hasn’t gotten to … Trump’s chopping block yet, rumors have proliferated, and people are justifiably anxious.” @amyshearn.bsky.social for @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2025/03/10/g...

“TikTok's algorithm recommends porn & highly sexualised content to children's accounts, according to a new report by a human rights campaign…. ‘TikTok isn't just failing to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content - it's suggesting it to them….’” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Trump administration is talking out of both sides of its mouth, claiming MAHA’s goal of improving child nutrition while disappearing USDA programs and cutting SNAP, the funding for schools and states to meet it. Small-time farmers and kids will take the hit. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

“New Mexico has quietly emerged as a progressive health-care sanctuary in the Southwest. Since the Dobbs decision, the number of abortion clinics in NM has more than doubled …. More than 10K women have travelled there to receive abortion care.” @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...