I’ve been up to my eyeballs lately in Joseph Lancaster’s archival papers. Every once in a while I’ve had to come up for twenty-first century air. When I did, these were a few of the stories that caught my eye this week:

Jim Loewen at HNN: Dinesh D’Souza lied about my work.

Can Christian bakers refuse same-sex weddings? The SCOTUS decision at RNS.

• …and what does it have to do with creationism? Here at ILYBYGTH.

Will Queen Betsy drive progressive reformers away from charter schools? Peter Greene hopes so.

What’s next for teacher strikes? At T74.

How Chicago schools failed to protect students from abuse, at CT.

• The hardest thing to admit about sex abuse at school, at ILYBYGTH.

Ouch: Tennessee hardware store puts up a “no gays allowed” sign. At USAT.