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More unbalancing of powers: “The Trump admin is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 mil Congress appropriated for expanding college-level foreign-language instruction & helping transient U.S. agricultural workers get GEDs & go to college.” www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Trump, Bucking Congress Yet Again, Cancels $100 Million for Education

A "pocket rescission" hits programs for migratory farmworkers and college-level language instruction.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 29/09/2026

There’s more than one way to misappropriate power: Congress passed $101 million for teen pregnancy prevention but about $100 million remains unspent after Trump’s Dept of Health & Human Services abruptly cut off grants to dozens of nonprofits, universities & health depts. www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...

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Congress passed $100 million for teen pregnancy prevention. Most of it is untouched

With days left to go in the 2026 fiscal year, lawmakers push the health department to spend the money Congress allocated to prevent teen pregnancy. An NPR exclusive.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 25/09/2026

How big-tent Christianity is pushing back against the selfish, divisive, and inhumane “spirituality” of JD Vance and his ilk: “Rev. Adam Hamilton's [Democratic] candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive” in Kansas. @rns.org religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...

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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas

LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 25/09/2026

“I’ve always believed that I have a responsibility … to care about all kids in need. I fear I am betraying that when I choose what is best for my son and my son alone. But America should not force parents to make that kind of choice.” @jenishawo.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Why I’m Sending My Black Son to Private School

I admire Nikole Hannah-Jones’s choice. I am making a different one.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 24/09/2026

Hold up. Under Homeland Security’s new “public charge” rule, a parent’s green card application can be denied if their U.S.-born child uses a federal benefit, like Medicaid or SNAP?! So kids can’t access the school lunch that research shows is needed to learn? Cruelty. www.k12dive.com/news/univers...

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Universal school meal reversals take toll on student behavior, focus, study finds

The findings published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior come amid growing fears that new policy changes could further hinder access.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 22/09/2026

“As long as we continue to rescue our own children from the failing schools where we allow other people’s children to languish simply because those children have been born Black and poor in a nation of racism and riches, there is no absolution here. Not for me. Not for you. Not for any of us.”

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 22/09/2026

“Public schools in the U.S. have effectively surrendered much of their pedagogy, curricula, & … systems to a handful of trillion-dollar tech companies.” Those steering the corporate ship have no idea where it’s going, making a comprehensive response near impossible. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

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What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom

Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 21/09/2026

This article is a master class on how to write about a topic that’s been covered thoroughly and for months, taught by @glorialiu for @runnersworld.bsky.social. “Confidence that’s both brash and tenuous feels deeply familiar, and female.” www.runnersworld.com/trail-runnin...

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Ultrarunning’s Newest Star Has Been Winning for Years. Why Are We Just Learning Rachel Entrekin’s Name?

Ahead of UTMB, the Cocodona champ opens up about self-doubt, recovery, and fighting for recognition.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 18/09/2026

“Too many of us seem to be maxxing our way out of the experiences and perspectives that give us maximum meaning…. When goals overtake experience, you lose the freedom to encounter your life as it happens. And … you are no longer living in full.” @ibogost.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Missing Ingredient of Modern Life

Why we need wonder

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 18/09/2026

“While [Trump] insists he has ‘done more for religion than any other president,’ he has been repeatedly sued by faith groups—particularly over his attempts to … facilitate mass deportation.” I’m proud to be Quaker and to be part of this unprecedented wave of filings. religionnews.com/2026/09/16/r...

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RNS tracked the religious lawsuits against Trump’s immigration policies. Here’s what we found.

(RNS) — Eighty religious plaintiffs from 11 major faith traditions have joined lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies, according a tracker developed by RNS with the Law, ...

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 09/09/2026

“following Operation Metro Surge: as many as 1,700 students left the Minnesota school districts & charter schools with the highest percentage of English learners. “Kids literally disappeared,” said the superintendent of Fridley Public Schools. “Overnight.” sahanjournal.com/education/mi...

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Minnesota schools lost at least 1,700 students after ICE operation

A Sahan Journal data analysis shows student enrollment declined in Minnesota school districts with the highest percentage of English learners after the federal immigration operation. For some, the los...

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 09/09/2026

Great news! I want the causality to be there, AND I’m left wondering how @osea.bsky.social and team accounted for comparing data collected near pandemic-era well-being lows (2022) to data collected after kids had a few years of relative normality under their belts (2025)? What’s the control group?

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 09/09/2026

“California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study.” Vani Sanganeria for @edsource.org edsource.org/2026/califor...

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Do later school start times help California students? Here’s what new study says

Later school start times can disrupt family schedules and cost districts money, but a new study says the benefits for sleep, mental health and academic achievement for California students makes the ch...

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 09/09/2026

“For student parents … balancing classes, parenting & … work—can make completing a degree more difficult.” In the Univ of Louisiana System’s new spaces, kids play with supervision while their parents study nearby. @joshuabay.bsky.social for @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

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Tackling Time Poverty for Student Parents

The University of Louisiana System is expanding support for student parents by addressing an overlooked barrier to success: finding time to study.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 09/09/2026

To pressure people to accept deportation without a court ruling, the Trump administration has created conditions worse than those at many prisons - in the absence of a real safety threat and with plenty of funds on hand. @samtlevin.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back

In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 17/08/2026

Why would the Trump admin get rid of hundreds of lawyers qualified to represent unaccompanied kids in immigration court & assign the work to those lacking experience & interest? To “pump up their deportation numbers on the backs of children,” says @acaciajustice.org www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense

After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them ...

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 15/08/2026

Excellent wide-angle lens on the inhumane, nonsensical “great delegalization” of the U.S. TLDR: Congress hasn’t done much in over 35 years, essentially leaving the executive branch in charge. The Trump admin has stripped protection from more than a million people. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.

More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 15/08/2026

You don’t need to kill a program to kill a program. And you don’t need to deport people to terrorize them. We told these folks - brought to the U.S. as kids - that they can safely work here. And we, the people, are breaking our promise. Shame on the U.S. Props to Cali. edsource.org/2026/daca-wo...

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California lawmakers call for faster DACA renewals amid prolonged processing delays

A California Assembly resolution is urging the federal government to speed up DACA renewals as prolonged processing delays leave some educators unable to work.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 04/08/2026

Take 2 minutes out of your day to really feel what AI has to do with the beauty of life, the LIFE of life, being found in clumsiness and “subtle imperfections.” shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

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Please Use AI

Be sure to use AI when making

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 26/07/2026

“[D]espite the evidence behind SRSD and similar approaches based on the science of writing, they haven’t made it into … classrooms.” @jackiemader.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org & @denverpost.com hechingerreport.org/the-next-lit...

hechingerreport.org

The next literacy challenge: Teaching students how to write

After years of neglect, writing skills are getting more attention in school

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 22/07/2026

Excellent points by @jessgrose.bsky.social that are totally supported by emerging research on midlife as less crisis, more reflective opportunity. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...

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Opinion | ‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Makes Middle Age Look Magical

Lately, the media loves to humiliate women in their 40s and 50s; this show reveres them.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 15/07/2026

You know that feeling in an ice cream shop or Swarovski, where there are just so many tantalizing wonders that your eyes dart around, unable to focus on any one thing? This article by @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social is like that, only for atrocities & moral repugnance. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

newyorker.com

Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center

On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Pointing out that ICE is murdering people they’re not looking for clearly isn’t to say it would be right for them to murder the people they are looking for. It’s to highlight how they are bringing roving terror and arbitrarily death to the whole US population. There’s no containing their threat.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 13/07/2026

Science communication is hard. @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social makes it look easy in this incredibly readable, persuasive new article for @newyorker.com. What if modern healthmaxxers are tanking their wellness by chasing a wild goose? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

newyorker.com

Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science

A new book argues that many of the world’s oldest people aren’t so old after all.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 13/07/2026

Start reading this article for the horrifying stats. Stay for the well-reasoned, well-argued doomsdayism of wise-beyond-her-years Rose Horowitch. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 13/07/2026

What an incredible profile in advocacy & care. @agawande.bsky.social's writing is uniquely crisp & moving. But he's shifted to podcast interviews & making a documentary, meeting the moment to save lives. Can you imagine putting aside your great strength like that? www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

newyorker.com

The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

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A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story

Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 29/06/2026

“this Administration is … bent on a maximalist campaign to close borders & expel as many migrants as possible, whether they are here legally or not. In this un-American endeavor, the … conservative majority is proving itself, once again, Trump’s willing accomplice.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

newyorker.com

The Supreme Court Enables Trump’s Cruel Immigration Agenda

Two new rulings revoke the temporary protected status of refugees from Haiti and Syria, and make it easier for the Administration to prevent migrants from claiming asylum and to expel lawful refugees.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 26/06/2026

THANK YOU to @soljourno.bsky.social for spreading the word about Edgar, other college students experiencing homelessness, & the innovative programs designed to ease their burden, at least a little, right away. And kudos to my editors @theguardian.com & @hechingerreport.org! Links in the comments.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 23/06/2026

Another excellent, data-backed Ideas piece from Matt for @chalkbeat.org with practical implications for counselors, policymakers, parents, and anyone else involved in shaping the choices and futures of kids and adolescents, including students themselves.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 17/06/2026

A brilliant, nuanced, and well-informed corrective from @sbkaufman.bsky.social: “the NY Mag piece is scientifically thin,” he writes, defending the validity of giftedness while arguing for opening the pedagogical gates to all manifestations of it. www.beautifulminds-newsletter.com/p/giftedness...

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Giftedness Isn’t a Lie. It’s Just Much Broader Than We Realize.

A response to “The Mirage of the Gifted Child” (New York magazine)

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/05/2026

Something is going right on college campuses, David Brooks argues. He examines new programs aiming to give students a better moral foundation.

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Something Is Going Right at Universities

There’s a ton of good stuff happening on campus these days, if you’re only willing to see it.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 28/05/2026

Killer lede from @laurapappano.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org & @slate.com: “The most exciting thing about Lindel Fields, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, is how boring he is.”

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 28/05/2026

"This is what we’re getting wrong about the manosphere.... It’s a broad spectrum & young men are not simply in or out …. Reactive & punitive responses alone aren’t enough .... [C]ompassionate accountability is where long-term, preventative change will happen." 1/2 womensagenda.com.au/latest/i-spe...

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I spent two years inside the manosphere. Here’s what most people still get wrong

The manosphere is not a binary thing. It’s not one ideology. It’s a broad spectrum and young men are not simply in or out of it.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Introducing major Senate-House legislation later today to fix this. Stay tuned.

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How Private Equity Destroyed Youth Sports

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 12/05/2026

"The Student Success Coach Learning Network is a cost-effective strategy for reducing ... academic disengagement," says Pedro Noguera of @uscrossier.bsky.social for @edsource.org: "Students ... begin gaining confidence because someone ... recognizes their potential." edsource.org/2026/funding...

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COMMENTARY: California must step up to protect programs that engage and support students

California should continue funding the Student Success Coach Learning Network in the 2026-27 state budget, which reaches out to support students who are in danger of disengaging from school.

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New: Since DOGE cut the statistical arm of the Education Department, basic facts about American schools are no longer readily available. Some of these data points can be found elsewhere but are now harder to track down. Others simply don't exist anymore. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/05/07/e...

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 04/05/2026

“[T]he Voting Rights Act of 1965—a landmark statute that was intended to insure racially equal electoral opportunity—has been read out of existence” as SCOTUS “usurped the work of Congress, & effectively vetoed…democratic ideals.” @JeannieSGersen for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

newyorker.com

How the Supreme Court demolished the Voting Rights Act

For two decades, the conservative Justices worked to eliminate a bulwark of the civil-rights era.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 04/05/2026

“Hamilton is one of several other Christian clergy running as Democrats for Congress in 2026 …. Hamilton says the reason … is because they see a discrepancy between their faith and what’s happening in Washington.” @kathrynpost.bsky.social for @rns.org 1/2 religionnews.com/2026/05/01/k...

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Kansas last sent a Democrat to the Senate in 1932. A megachurch pastor aims to change that.

(RNS) — Rev. Adam Hamilton, co-founder of the largest United Methodist church in the country, explains why he is running for Senate and believes he can win.

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