October already…feeling spooooky. Here are some articles that caught our attention this past week:

Our lead story this week: Asuza Pacific University on a LGBTQ+ roller coaster:

• First they changed their policy on homosexuality. Romance was in, but sex still out, at CT.
• Pundits called on donors to pull their funds. See Rod Dreher at AC.
• So they changed it back, at CP.
• Why can’t schools change? I look at the history here at ILYBYGTH.

Creepy prep schools and the future of the Supreme Court, at The Atlantic.

Does going to an elite prep school have ANYTHING to do with all this mess?

Will this school-integration plan work? At T74.

Researcher claims Protestantism still promotes schooling, at Phys.org.

Improving schools by improving lives, or vice versa? At Chalkbeat.

many policies with a shot at changing the experience of low-income students in school don’t have anything to do with the schools themselves.

• Coleman Report redux? The history of the school/poverty debate, here at ILYBYGTH.

Principal out after planning to “embarrass” a student who reported sexual assault, at WaPo.

Keeping a “Nazi” student after Charlottesville, at IHE.

He has a right to pursue his education at a state institution. . . . He’s a Nazi — it doesn’t mean he doesn’t get to have an education.

Should the school have kicked him out?