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Friday, September 4, 2026

How Culture Wars Impacted The Midterms

The new CNN podcast “The Assignment with Audie Cornish” looks at the power of US school boards in shaping what kids learn in schools. In the 1970s West Virginia, they protested over diverse textbooks, in 2022 it’s the handling of the pandemic and issues of gender and race.

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Nation’s Largest School District Bans AI In The Classroom Through 8th...

New York City announced a one-year moratorium on generative AI use for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, affecting nearly 600,000 students. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Chancellor Kamar Samuels say the policy, called the nation's most expansive AI school restriction, aims to protect critical thinking and student-teacher relationships while limiting screen time districtwide.