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Tinker's Black Armbands and the Rights Students Carry Through the School Gate In 1969 the Court said Des Moines schools could not punish students for wearing black armbands, and conservative students rely on that ruling today. Social-Emotional Learning, What It Was Meant to Be and What It Became Teaching children self-control and kindness is old wisdom, but some SEL programs became surveys of private feelings that parents never saw. Action Civics Gives Credit for Protest, and That Is Not Civics Action civics trades knowledge of the Constitution for activism chosen by adults, and the record on what students know shows the cost. Ending Gifted Programs in the Name of Equity Hurts the Kids It Claims to Help Closing gifted classes and delaying algebra removes the ladder from able children whose parents cannot buy tutors. The evidence, the TJ case, the objection. Curriculum Transparency Laws, What They Require and Why They Help Teachers A curriculum transparency law asks schools to post what they teach. Here is what bills require, the objections answered, and how to use one well. The 1619 Project in the Classroom and the Historians Who Objected The 1619 Project's claim about the Revolution drew a letter from five leading historians. Here is the case for it, the answer, and honest teaching. Mahmoud v. Taylor and the Storybooks That Brought Opt-Outs Back to School In Mahmoud v. Taylor the Court held that refusing an opt-out from storybook lessons burdened parents' free exercise, reviving Yoder.