Texas vs. Plato: Censorship in the Academy
Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.
THURSDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2026, 21:02
Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.

Labour’s changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which its opponents are likely to reap at the ballot box
Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’
“It is not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry...

Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to fraudsters’ bank accounts
Foreign students attending independent schools in the UK are being targeted by fraudsters seeking to intercept their fee payments, according to new research.
Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to the bank account of a criminal, after receiving a fake...

The chancellor’s defence comes after Martin Lewis called her freeze on student loans “not a moral thing”.
The physician work force is aging fast, and some hospitals now require that older clinicians undergo testing for cognitive decline. Many have resisted.
Readers discuss ways to rescue the industry.

Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, jailed for three years for sexually assaulting student on school trip
The headteacher of Eton College has apologised and said he was “appalled” after a former teacher was jailed for sexually assaulting a pupil.
Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, was jailed on Friday for three years and three months for sexually assaulting one of his students during a school...
In Fridley, a Minneapolis suburb, school officials are driving nervous teachers and buying families groceries. At dismissal, the superintendent patrols for federal agents.
Lawyers have filed lawsuits against corporations, law firms, health care companies, art groups and nonprofits. And they are mostly winning.

The House of Lords is soon due to debate whether to introduce a legal ban on smartphones in schools.
The school’s principal said he brought two children to federal custody at the request of their mother, who was detained. Last week, another student, Liam Conejo Ramos, was picked up by immigration agents.
It is rare for schools to work in concert with immigration officials, and it remains unclear if the partnerships have led to deportations.
An Iranian government official said some children had been detained, the first such acknowledgment in weeks of anti-government protests.
Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; cursive writing.
New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation.
After 22 wonderful years, I’ve decided to take the exciting and terrifying step of leaving in order to try to build something new.
Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond.
Artificial intelligence is replacing young people’s social intuitions.

The countries that invest in youth now will be the ones that define global innovation in the coming years
Monica Geingos is founder of Leadership Lab Yetu and former first lady of Namibia
For the first time in our history, more than 70% of Africans are under the age of 30. This, along with entrenched inequalities, poverty, unemployment and socioeconomic fault lines, is reshaping how our...
An appellate court ruled that the firing of the former assistant principal of an elementary school in Mississippi in 2022 had been “arbitrary and capricious.”
Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent.