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New York’s immigrant spirit tested by influx of asylum-seekersFaced with its biggest migrant influx since Ellis Island, New York City finds itself grappling with how to provide funding and compassion.
- New York’s immigrant spirit tested by influx of asylum-seekers
Faced with its biggest migrant influx since Ellis Island, New York City finds itself grappling with how to provide funding and compassion.
FocusCould four-day weeks lead to more progress for students?What role does time play in student success? Educators are expanding and contracting school days and weeks, looking for a mix that allows instruction and young people to thrive.
First LookHis Parkland classmates became activists. He created a wellness app.Kai Koerber was a junior at the time of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Five years later, he has used his background in technology to create Joy, an app built on AI that helps people struggling with sadness, grief, or anger.
First LookClimate Corps: Biden creates 20,000 green jobs for young adultsPresident Joe Biden is using executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps. The White House says the program will employ 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels, and help prevent wildfires.
First LookFrom Toni Morrison to Ta-Nehisi Coates, book bannings surgeThe American Library Association reports 2023 as a likely record-breaking year for book challenges in school and public libraries. The ALA’s opposition to bannings has prompted a county in Wyoming and a library in Texas to withdraw their memberships.
Pressed on abortion, Republican candidates adaptAfter overturning Roe v. Wade, the GOP faces a more complex political battleground – with some candidates urging more moderate stances on abortion.
First LookEven after CROWN Act, Texas student suspended for dreadlocksIn the same week that Texas passed the CROWN Act prohibiting discrimination on the basis of hair, Darryl George – a Black high school student – was suspended because his dreadlocks violated his district’s dress code.
First LookNative American remains to return to Illinois for burial. Why now?A new act signed last month by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker hopes to speed up the recovery and reburial of Native Americans whose remains had been unearthed. Institutions across the state have identified nearly 13,000 individuals to be repatriated.
How one Alabama district found a way to make math scores soarWith its top math scores, a rural school district in Alabama has shown the effectiveness of homegrown approaches. What can other educators learn from the Piedmont model?
Biden at the UN: Old-school internationalism faces a testPresident Biden’s U.N. speech offers him the opportunity to convince his audiences, foreign and domestic, that traditional internationalism is not a relic of a bygone American century.
Congress barrels toward a shutdown with GOP at the wheelWith government funding set to expire Sept. 30, national deficits are worse than they’ve been in decades. Republicans are internally divided over whether to cut a deal or make a stand.
Monitor BreakfastWhy Secretary Cardona is ‘more optimistic than usual’At a Monitor Breakfast, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona touted his ‘back to school’ tour – then doubled down on his critique of ‘legacy admissions’ and highlighted his nonelite background.
Biden’s double whammy: Impeachment inquiry, son’s legal woesAn impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden and the indictment of his son Hunter on federal gun charges could generate sympathy – and risk – for his reelection campaign.
First LookPrisoner swap: American citizens held in Tehran on their way homeIran and the United States will each swap five prisoners today. The deal follows Iran’s receipt of $6 billion in once-frozen assets. The two nations have a history of prisoner swaps dating back to the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis.
First LookTexas Attorney General Paxton acquitted in impeachment trialIn Texas, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted of corruption charges in an impeachment trial. Mr. Paxton remains under FBI investigation.
Republican presidential field: One party, many brandsYes, Donald Trump is leading by far in polls of GOP voters. But the Republican Party is far from homogeneous, as a disparate field of presidential candidates attests.
First LookEverton joins growing list of American-owned English soccer teamsEngland’s Premier League soccer team Everton will be bought by American private investment firm 777 Partners. The Miami-based firm already has a stake in a number of European soccer clubs, which are increasingly being bought by Americans.
Hunter Biden indicted: Why case may not be a slam dunkAfter a failed plea deal, Hunter Biden is indicted on federal gun charges by a Department of Justice special counsel. The case – not as simple as it might seem – complicates the presidential campaign.
First LookDACA back on the docket: Texas federal judge rules program illegalDACA was declared illegal by a federal judge from the District Court in Southern Texas. The declaration accompanies lawsuits from nine Southern states and does not end protection for dreamers, yet seeks to undermine the program through the Supreme Court.
