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  1. Utah bans Stephen King novella collection from public schools
    By Anna Betts

    Different Seasons, which incudes stories that inspired films such as Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, judged to contain ‘objective sensitive material’

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    #USbookbans #Utah #USnews #StephenKing #Books #USeducation #TheGuardian #AnnaBetts

  2. Utah bans Stephen King novella collection from public schools
    By Anna Betts

    Different Seasons, which incudes stories that inspired films such as Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, judged to contain ‘objective sensitive material’

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    #USbookbans #Utah #USnews #StephenKing #Books #USeducation #TheGuardian #AnnaBetts

  3. Utah bans Stephen King novella collection from public schools
    By Anna Betts

    Different Seasons, which incudes stories that inspired films such as Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, judged to contain ‘objective sensitive material’

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    #USbookbans #Utah #USnews #StephenKing #Books #USeducation #TheGuardian #AnnaBetts

  4. Utah bans Stephen King novella collection from public schools
    By Anna Betts

    Different Seasons, which incudes stories that inspired films such as Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, judged to contain ‘objective sensitive material’

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    #USbookbans #Utah #USnews #StephenKing #Books #USeducation #TheGuardian #AnnaBetts

  5. Utah bans Stephen King novella collection from public schools
    By Anna Betts

    Different Seasons, which incudes stories that inspired films such as Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, judged to contain ‘objective sensitive material’

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    #USbookbans #Utah #USnews #StephenKing #Books #USeducation #TheGuardian #AnnaBetts

  6. What Bari Weiss is doing to CBS in general and 60 Minutes in particular is an unforgivable attack on the freedom of US television news.

    Less serious, but significant nonetheless, is the harm Weiss has wreaked on attempts by some US liberals to question groupthink in some quarters of academia, the media, and the nonprofit sector.

    By her using the pose of a "radical centrist" questioning "woke orthodoxy" to strengthen right wing power in education and the media, she has made honest and productive debate about conformity and freedom of expression even more difficult than it already was.

    I cannot abide her bad faith posturing!

    Image: Bari Weiss, Honestly podcast, Texas Tribune Festival 2023 -- Presia Debauch -- creativecommons.org/licenses/b -- Flickr

    #USCulture #BariWeiss #USEducation #USMedia

  7. What Bari Weiss is doing to CBS in general and 60 Minutes in particular is an unforgivable attack on the freedom of US television news.

    Less serious, but significant nonetheless, is the harm Weiss has wreaked on attempts by some US liberals to question groupthink in some quarters of academia, the media, and the nonprofit sector.

    By her using the pose of a "radical centrist" questioning "woke orthodoxy" to strengthen right wing power in education and the media, she has made honest and productive debate about conformity and freedom of expression even more difficult than it already was.

    I cannot abide her bad faith posturing!

    Image: Bari Weiss, Honestly podcast, Texas Tribune Festival 2023 -- Presia Debauch -- creativecommons.org/licenses/b -- Flickr

    #USCulture #BariWeiss #USEducation #USMedia

  8. >> Was UATX a hard-right project from the start? Based on my reporting, I don’t think it was. I was struck by the sincerity of the commitment to free speech and open inquiry from so many of the people with whom I spoke. A few were Trump supporters, but many more were best identified as anti-woke moderates or liberals. The university’s saga has a strong sense of historical contingency — that it could have gone quite differently had some high-leverage moments gone otherwise. <<

    I disagree.

    Although some of the names associated with the project at its beginnings might have had a sincere commitment to free inquiry, the presence of the billionaire technofascist Lonsdale as a founder and funder of this venture meant that it was always going to be nothing more than a right wing training camp.

    politico.com/news/magazine/202?

    #USEducation #USPolitics #UniversityOfAustin #HigherEducation #Universities #Austin #Texas #JoeLonsdale

  9. >> Was UATX a hard-right project from the start? Based on my reporting, I don’t think it was. I was struck by the sincerity of the commitment to free speech and open inquiry from so many of the people with whom I spoke. A few were Trump supporters, but many more were best identified as anti-woke moderates or liberals. The university’s saga has a strong sense of historical contingency — that it could have gone quite differently had some high-leverage moments gone otherwise. <<

    I disagree.

    Although some of the names associated with the project at its beginnings might have had a sincere commitment to free inquiry, the presence of the billionaire technofascist Lonsdale as a founder and funder of this venture meant that it was always going to be nothing more than a right wing training camp.

    politico.com/news/magazine/202?

    #USEducation #USPolitics #UniversityOfAustin #HigherEducation #Universities #Austin #Texas #JoeLonsdale

  10. 🔢📚 In today's "shocking" revelation, it appears that US high schoolers are continuing their epic quest to set new low scores in math and reading. Meanwhile, a war of headlines rages on, leaving us to wonder if anyone will ever find X or read about it competently. 😂🔍
    apnews.com/article/naep-readin #USEducation #MathScores #ReadingSkills #LowScores #HeadlineWar #StudentPerformance #HackerNews #ngated

  11. 🔢📚 In today's "shocking" revelation, it appears that US high schoolers are continuing their epic quest to set new low scores in math and reading. Meanwhile, a war of headlines rages on, leaving us to wonder if anyone will ever find X or read about it competently. 😂🔍
    apnews.com/article/naep-readin #USEducation #MathScores #ReadingSkills #LowScores #HeadlineWar #StudentPerformance #HackerNews #ngated