Emma Green

Christopher Rufo, who has been described by the Times as a right-wing inciter of race panics, hosts an anti-élitist book party at the Mondrian Hotel.

The conservative education activist Erika Donalds envisions a world where parents unsatisfied with their public schools can opt out by putting their kids in a headset.

That changed when a cousin encouraged him to get a job as a teacher so that he could travel and have time off in the summer. By then, Wilds-Bethea had moved to New York City and had got a master’s degree in counselling. He inquired with the city’s Board of Examiners—which, at the time, was the body that certified New York City teachers—about a position working in guidance. But he was made to understand that guidance-counsellor positions were mainly awarded to favored or more experienced teachers…

The crowd started small—maybe seventy-five people. Several young women in combat boots and hijabs, who had organized the rally, came out carrying homemade posters and a bullhorn. “Free, free Palestine!” a woman shouted into the bullhorn. “Free-free-free Palestine!” The crowd of students cheered and joined in, echoing her rhythm and words. Many of the protesters appeared to be Muslim. Some of the chants, in Arabic, were explicitly religious. “Takbir!” a woman shouted into the bullhorn, calling fo…

On Tuesday, Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University, just six months into a tenure marked by campus unrest and controversy. After Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7th, a number of Harvard student groups released a statement blaming Israel for the violence. The administration’s initial response was circumspect; in a statement, the school’s leaders said they were “heartbroken by the death and destruction unleashed by the attack.” After a public outcry, Gay released a fol…

Brilla is part of the classical-education movement, a fast-growing effort to fundamentally reorient schooling in America. Classical schools offer a traditional liberal-arts education, often focussing on the Western canon and the study of citizenship. The classical approach, which prioritizes some ways of teaching that have been around for more than two thousand years, is radically different from that of public schools, where what kids learn—and how they learn it—varies wildly by district, school…

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Campus workers, who feel like they’ve been left in the lurch by college administrators, are figuring out how to deal with the latest wave of student demonstrations.

In “Hannah’s Children,” an economist and mother of eight interviews highly educated women with large families—and examines the reasons for America’s declining fertility rate.

Under Trump, a new vision for conservative family policy is ascendant, Emma Green reports.