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A retired New York lawmaker called me last week, my first as executive editor here at The Hechinger Report, to discuss an issue we tracked last year: Columbia University, now New York City’s largest private landowner ([link removed]) and like nonprofits in many states, pays no property taxes, nor does NYU, saving the universities a combined $327 million. New legislation is in the works to change that ([link removed]) .

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The newest wave of parent influence, also triggered by coronavirus, is explored in a new book from Hechinger contributor Laura Pappano. Be sure to read the excerpt we published ([link removed]) from “School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics and the Battle for Public Education.”

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The magic pebble and a lazy bull: The book ban movement has a long timeline ([link removed])
‘Book banning is a chaotic and illogical business,’ journalist Laura Pappano writes in her new book on partisan politics and the battle for public education


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PROOF POINTS: How to get teachers to talk less and students more ([link removed])
Show them how much they actually speak, one study suggests

Experts predicted dozens of colleges would close in 2023 — and they were right ([link removed])
Even more colleges will likely close in the coming years as enrollment problems worsen

Mississippi child care workers barely earn ‘survival wages’ ([link removed])
An additional $5 an hour would encourage more to stay in the job

The mental health needs of Black and Hispanic girls often go unmet. This group wraps them in support ([link removed])
Working on Womanhood, a school-based mental health program, makes students feel ‘heard and understood’

A campaign to prod high school students into college tries a new tack: making it simple ([link removed])
How an adman is confronting the crisis of confidence higher education isn’t doing much about

OPINION: A hopeful note for early childhood in 2024 — Some states are stepping up investment ([link removed])
As pandemic funds disappear, new efforts are more urgent than ever to keep the child care industry afloat

OPINION: Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation and the end of affirmative action signal to Black people that they will never belong ([link removed])
A similar fate would likely befall the next Black woman president, if there ever is one again

COLUMN: Colleges must give communities a seat at the table alongside scientists if we want real environmental justice ([link removed])
In the 'communiversity' model, academic researchers work alongside local groups in marginalized communities to share the benefits of environmental work

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