Education
What Is the Free State Project?
Today’s newsletter is a guest dispatch from Dan Barry, who wrote in The New York Times on Sunday about how the surprise victory of a hardcore libertarian movement in a small New Hampshire town led to swift backlash — and a harsh lesson in the importance of showing up to vote. Here, Dan explains the […]
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College-Educated Workers Help Unionize Places Like Starbucks
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Over the past decade and a half, many young, college-educated workers have faced a disturbing reality: that it was harder for them to reach the middle class than for previous generations. The change has had profound effects […]
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Christopher Rufo Fuels the Right’s Cultural Fires in Florida
GIG HARBOR, Wash. — Christopher Rufo appears on Fox News so often that he converted a room in his Pacific Northwest house to a television studio, complete with professional lighting, an uplink to Fox in New York and an “On Air” light in the hall so his wife and two children don’t barge in during […]
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Red States Push L.G.B.T.Q. Restrictions as Education Battles Intensify
Last April, a high school senior in Utah named Gabriela Merida joined a student town hall hosted by her governor. She introduced herself, noted the pronouns she used and broached the subject of mental health challenges facing young L.G.B.T.Q. people. How, she asked, did the state plan to help constituencies like hers? “My preferred pronouns […]
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A Fast, Frugal Track to Culinary School? Community College.
HAVERHILL, Mass. — The students all wore white chef coats, houndstooth pants and short toques as they tasted their lamb tagines for salt. Floor-to-ceiling windows in the sleek kitchen framed a sweeping view of the Merrimack River. Here, north of Boston in the culinary school at Northern Essex Community College, the students will learn about […]
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Hundreds of Students Are Stranded at a University in Ukraine
By Alexandra Eaton, Caroline Kim, Nailah Morgan, Rex Sakamoto and Robin Stein •March 3, 2022 Medical students at a university in Sumy, Ukraine, saw their school become a war zone overnight. They have no way to travel home and are stranded near the fighting.
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A Moose Hunting Class Is Teaching Students About Food
NIKISKI, Alaska — Before the sun rose on Nov. 11, 10 students from Nikiski Middle & High School had gathered with their teacher, Jesse Bjorkman, at a gas-station parking lot here in this small community on the Kenai Peninsula — to gear up for a moose hunt. Dispersed among five vehicles, the group drove about […]
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