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‘School Moms’ Fight Back Against Book Bans: Laura Pappano Talks to Mom-Activist Kate Nazemi
Kate Nazemi, co-founder of Advocates for Inclusive Education talks about success in Central Bucks School Board races — and why they’re not done. Plus advice for grassroots parent groups fighting for public education.
Mutha Magazine
April 12, 2024
The Page 99 Test: Laura Pappano’s School Moms
"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford
The Page 99 Test
January 29, 2024
The Heroes Fighting For Public Education
In the face of far-right extremist groups like Moms for Liberty, “school moms” have become the frontline defenders of education for all.
YES! Magazine
January 23, 2024
The magic pebble and a lazy bull: The book ban movement has a long timeline
Adapted excerpt from School Moms.
The Hechinger Report
January 15, 2024
Idaho’s School Board Battles Against the Far Right
(Mostly) Republican moms fight to reclaim their Idaho school district from the far right.
Vanity Fair | The Hechinger Report
December 11, 2023
Who picks school curriculum? Idaho law hands more power to parents
What are the consequences when the state legislature passes "parental rights" laws to control what happens in the classroom?
The Guardian | The Hechinger Report
August 14, 2023
Inside the Weekend’s Gathering of America’s Most Unhinged Right-Wing Moms
When is talk about schools not about education? When you’re at the Moms for Liberty National Summit.
Slate | The Hechinger Report
July 5, 2023
Florida Just Expanded School Vouchers — Again. Here’s What it Could Mean for Public Education.
Vouchers and “school choice” sound good. But it’s more complicated. What is the impact on public schools, which 90 percent of children in America attend?
The Hechinger Report | USA Today
April 24, 2023
Back to School and Back to Normal. Or At Least Close Enough
The fizzle and fun of school is mostly back. And students are embracing it. A snapshot of the start of school in the Methow Valley, WA.
The New York Times
October 11, 2022
College Students to Administrators: Let’s Talk About Mental Health
Covid has cracked open a conversation students are desperate to have.
The Hechinger Report
March 3, 2022
Pandemic Leads Colleges to Revise, Improve Mental Health Efforts
Students want to raise the profile of mental health talk on college campuses
The Washington Post
March 3, 2022
In 2022, Let’s Rethink Work
The pandemic offers us a reset button. We cannot unsee what we saw on Zoom.
WCW Post
January 4, 2022
More Students Question College, Putting Counselors in a Quandary
Is it time to re-think what “success” looks like and how to help students achieve it?
The Hechinger Report | USA Today
January 3, 2022
Glimpses of How Pandemic America Went Back to School
NY Times reporters fanned out across the country to document the start of school. I went to Winthrop, WA.
New York Times
September 20, 2021
For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough
States and colleges are pressing to get more adults to complete degrees, but many programs are not structured to serve them.
The Hechinger Report | USA Today
August 5, 2021
‘Right now is not my time’: How Covid dimmed college prospects for students who need help most
A perfect storm of remote school and complexity of applying to college leaves low-income and first generation students short on help
The Hechinger Report
March 4, 2021
A ‘gobsmacking number’ of students in need aren’t applying to college. Are we missing ‘an entire generation’?
The low-income and first generation students who need college help most are not getting it.
USA Today
March 4, 2021
How to Raise Rural Enrollment in Higher Education? Go Local.
Given the rural-nonrural divide in America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of.
The Hechinger Report | The Washington Post
December 13, 2020