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New in The Atlantic: The first excerpt from my book “They Came for the Schools,” about the Christian right’s war on “secular humanism” four decades ago, which previewed, on a smaller scale, the campaigns to control what children learn today. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Some speculation on here that universities can't divest from Israel, bc they hold their endowment $ in index funds, hedge funds, PE, etc. This is just not true. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

It’s time to take action and parallel process the work:

While fixing FAFSA, tell students about the affordable colleges available to them *anytime*:

The nation’s community colleges.

'Mr. Trump, it’s important you understand the last thing I want to do is put you in jail,” the judge says. “You are the former president of the United States, and possibly the next president as well.” But he warns a jail sanction will be considered going forward.

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Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also…

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Here is the Washington Post report about officers entering Columbia with their guns drawn: washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

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Yes. One of the reasons I left ED OCR is that it’s largely toothless in real disputes. OCR must refer a case out to DOJ and eventually a court to revoke funds. Depending on whom you ask, that’s either never happened or only happened once (in the 70s).

That's ambitious given that they are already behind the curve: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Columbia 'refusing' to comply with Title VI would be a highly unlikely situation, by the way. Administrators, like most school leaders, will surely push to settle w/ U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. Can't stress enough that pulling federal funds would be an extraordinary step.

I wrote this story a couple of months ago, and can't stop thinking about what John Thelin had to say about the ongoing erosion of higher education's core tenets: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

A LIVING REMEDY is out in paperback today! It is the book of my heart, and I feel very lucky to have gotten to write and publish it. If you want to order a copy, it would mean so much to me. harpercollins.com/products/a-liv…

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