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When I was an education journalist, I would typically not work in the summer. Flexibility is the one perk of a being a freelancer, after all. It just didn’t make sense to write articles about schools in the summer time. 

Because parents are busy with camp schedules and trips to Disney, education articles are not read. Teachers and professors are too hard to track down for quotes or input, because they are also driving their kids to camp and to the beach. And, foundations and think tanks also know the scene and don’t release any new studies during that time. So, why bother? I was plenty busy with my own mom-stuff at that time anyway. 

But this has been an unusually active education summer. The Supreme Court decisions to overturn Biden’s student loan program and to strike down Affirmative Action in college admissions certainly heated things up, but there also a lot of low level discontent out there, which I’m picking up even in random comments in conversations with friends. If things are at a low simmer right now, this fall should be very, very interesting.

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