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A Bipartisan Schools Movement Graduation at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tenn.Credit...Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times April 28, 2021, 6:22 a.m. ET Over the past decade, an idea has become popular with mayors and governors, both Democratic and Republican: A K-12 education is no longer enough. Students should start school earlier than kindergarten, according to this view, both to help families with child care and to provide children with early learning. And students should stay in school beyond high school, because decent-paying jobs in today’s economy typically require ...

“Sunshine is the best disinfectant” is a maxim dear to the hearts of journalists, including my first boss, the late editor Doug Ernst. We make a living by exercising the privileges granted by the First Amendment, Doug used to say. He lived for the thrill of dragging a shadowy taxpayer-funded boondoggle or a corrupt public official into the light of public scrutiny. So what happens when that impulse to expose, to publish, to tell the whole ugly story, runs up against the current movement to scrub the cultural marketplace of words and ideas that are deemed offensive or are espoused by...

Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth.” It wasn’t the one about what he had to say to critics who suggested his biography of Roth was marred by deep misogyny. Bailey — whose book has been permanently pulled from print by his publisher, W.W. Norton, after multiple women came forward with allegations of rape and sexual assault against him — might reasonably have been wary about that topic. It was about, instead, whether he had taken anything from Philip Roth’s house. It was an innocent question. You can learn a lot about someone through the kind of relics t...

Publisher Pulls Philip Roth Bio, Cuts Ties With Author Accused of Sexual Harassment and Assault 28 Apr 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a highly anticipated and widely discussed biography of Philip Roth is pulling the book and cutting ties with author Blake Bailey, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault. W.W. Norton and Company previously released Bailey’s memoir “The Splendid Things We Planned.” “Norton is permanently putting out of print our editions of ‘Philip Roth: The Biography’ and ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s 2014 me...