#Let’s hope GOP nominates Trump, Schiff’s unlawful Twitter threat and other commentary

#Let’s hope GOP nominates Trump, Schiff’s unlawful Twitter threat and other commentary

“Let’s hope GOP nominates Trump, Schiff’s unlawful Twitter threat and other commentary” Lefty: Let’s Hope GOP Nominates Trump The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky wants Republicans to nominate Donald Trump for president in 2024. Why? “He’s become the most beatable” Republican, “by far.” If independents abandon Trump as they did his midterm candidates, there’s “no chance”…

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#Inside the sordid world of tutoring kids of NYC’s 1 percent

#Inside the sordid world of tutoring kids of NYC’s 1 percent

“#Inside the sordid world of tutoring kids of NYC’s 1 percent” Blythe Grossberg had been working with a 14-year-old student named Lily on a paper about “Romeo and Juliet.” Grossberg, a writing tutor and learning specialist, was satisfied with the completed assignment, in which Lily argued that 13-year-old Juliet should have married neither Romeo nor…

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#Attacking test-in schools is anti-Asian

#Attacking test-in schools is anti-Asian

“#Attacking test-in schools is anti-Asian” On Wednesday, a handful of students — including a couple of Brooklyn Tech kids — demonstrated against the specialized high school entrance exam in front of Stuyvesant HS in Lower Manhattan. Teens Take Charge, the group sponsoring the event, chose Stuyvesant as the venue because it is 70 percent Asian…

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#Letters to the Editor — May 5, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — May 5, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — May 5, 2021” The Issue: Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross-Porter’s call to eliminate admissions tests at elite schools. Seth Barron was exactly right — the test to enter elite high schools is not the culprit (“Wrong Culprit,” PostOpinion, May 1). The culprit is parents who do not make sure their children…

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#Killing the elite-schools exam is just shooting the messenger

#Killing the elite-schools exam is just shooting the messenger

“#Killing the elite-schools exam is just shooting the messenger” New chancellor, same old response to the vexingly few black and Hispanic students scoring seats at the city’s top public high schools: Like her predecessor, Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter blames the test itself. In the latest round of acceptances, Asians won 53.7 percent of all seats;…

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#Letters to the Editor — April 20, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — April 20, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — April 20, 2021” The Issue: A letter from a parent who pulled his child out of Brearley School over its race-focused curriculum. Thank you to Andrew Gutmann for saying the truth about the lessons children are learning in schools at all levels of education (“Schooled!” April 17). I was taught…

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