An Education Conservative Is a Liberal Who’s Had To Do Cafeteria Duty? What Nikole Hannah-Jones Misses About Public Education. Plus Fish.

For the second time in a week, The New York Times set everyone chattering with an education article. First, it was the dubious idea that California should turn its elite colleges into diploma mills. Someone actually wrote, in the paper of record, “Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates.” Here’s Kelsey Piper on that. This time it was a reflective article from Nikole Hannah-Jones revisiting, and questioning, the school choice she very publicly made for her daughter a decade ago. Source: In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? In short, in another splashy Times article in 2016 Hannah-Jones announced she was sending her daughter to a regular New York City public school. At the time she wrote, Source: hoosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City In my view, given her profile, previous writing and past statements, Hannah-Jones deserves credit for doing this in public rather than sweeping it…