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All fair points, but I still think parents have more reason to worry about a possible causal link post-study than they did pre-study.

Now if only it weren’t for those pesky IRBs, researchers could randomly assign representative subsets of teens to use cannabis …

A huge study finds a link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later Researchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used marijuana were more likely to develop serious mental illness, as well as depression and anxiety.

More bad news for parents of teens trying - and failing - to hold the line on vaping: “a new longitudinal study finds that cannabis use among adolescents increases risks of being diagnosed with bipolar & psychotic disorders, as well as anxiety & depression, years later.” www.npr.org/2026/02/21/n...

Why Are So Many Teen Girls Still Tearing Their A.C.L.s?

The AI voice reading me this article pronounced ACL “tears” as rhyming with “fears,” and I can’t say it’s wrong, given the content of the story. @craigwelch.bsky.social puts the promise and pity of the FIFA 11+ in context for @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/m...

Believe It or Not, 1 Vape has 20 Cigarettes Worth of Nicotine Learn from an expert on how marketing shapes the use of flavored vapes, and and what it means for kids and teens.

ATTN parents & educators:

“Almost a decade ago, the average vape cartridge had the nicotine content of about a pack of cigarettes or 20 cigarettes. These days, popular vapes can easily have the nicotine content of 3 cartons or 600 cigarettes.”

@ucsfhealth.bsky.social www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/12...

The Trump Admin. Says It Supports Career-Tech. Ed. It Canceled CTE Grants Anyway Nineteen projects—many in rural areas—lost funding that was helping students prepare for college and careers.

The Trump Admin. Says It Supports Career-Tech. Ed. It Canceled CTE Grants Anyway: Nineteen projects—many in rural areas—lost funding that was helping students prepare for college and careers.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Earning a degree behind bars is difficult. Finding housing after release can be harder. - Open Campus Some prison education programs are expanding to provide their alumni with a place to live alongside job assistance and other support.

"For formerly incarcerated people ... earning a degree is ... the first step toward rebuilding their lives. But without stable housing, the rest becomes nearly impossible." One prison ed program hires its own alums to renovate houses. @charlottewest.bsky.social www.opencampus.org/2026/02/20/e...

How Trump Is Still Deporting People Wherever He Wants Trump has been deporting people to so-called third countries, or countries that the deportee typically has no connection to. A legal expert spoke to Isaac Chotiner about how he’s getting away with it.

“The Administration has continued … deporting large numbers of noncitizens to so-called third countries, or countries to which the deportee … has no connection.” A law professor explains the “clearly illegal” practice. @ichotiner.bsky.social w/ @uclacilp.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, had a whole life ahead of him when a federal immigration agent decided to take it away. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

These stories of unfairness, dehumanization, & demagogic decision-making are appalling & redolent of our nation’s biggest mistakes. The couple that had to close their business, in particular, reminds me of the internment of Japanese Americans. The damned if you do-don’t polygraphs of McCarthyism.

How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.

“Even as Donald Trump has turned the agencies of DHS into something of a roving personal police force, his Administration has prosecuted a quieter but no less ambitious assault on legal immigration.” @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

How One Rural District Used College Students to Keep English Learners in School This leader's mentorship program with a local university has helped rural English learners at risk of dropping out.

A district needed to lower the dropout rate of Latino teens who were already getting extra academic support. Latino college students at a primarily white institution needed a sense of mattering. A mentoring program paired the problems to solve them. @edweek.org www.edweek.org/leaders/2026...

Amid ICE raids, Minneapolis rabbi and pastor show solidarity in action The partnership includes joint worship — and a $1 million fundraising drive for Minneapolis families affected by the siege.

Imagine not being able to go to your choir practice because “ICE was scanning license plate numbers and stopping those cars with plates owned by people with Latino-sounding names.” So glad these faith leaders are resisting. Now it’s on the rest of us to join them. religionnews.com/2026/02/16/b...

Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley 'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...

‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.

Trump Slashed Billions for Education in 2025. See Our List of Affected Grants We've tabulated the grant programs that have had awards terminated over the past year. See our list.

“Because there is no central listing of all terminated grants, the actual number of affected grants is almost certainly higher.” @marklieberman.bsky.social for @edweek.org www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Measles cases, by week, since 2022. “Measles cases in week 3 of 2026 were … the highest … for a single week in decades…. This single week in 2026 saw more cases than the yearly total in all but 5 years since 2000…. We are … likely to see more hospitalizations & deaths.” Emily Oster for Parent Data

The White House Is Brushing Off a Racist Meme Trump’s team took 12 hours to remove a racist video from the president’s Truth Social account.

The White House says that an unidentified staffer was responsible for posting a racist video of the Obamas—yet the video remained on President Trump’s Truth Social account for 12 hours, Hana Kiros writes.

Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show

“Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

“You look at your son, the glasses you picked out with him, the haircut he chose from the wall at the barber shop, the beating heart you gave him. And you know that you, too, will never recover.” Elizabeth Bruenig maps how a child dies of measles: theatln.tc/9aJn7A7y

What Melanie Lundquist’s op-ed for @edsource.org describes is exactly the type of investment @theatlantic.com let me write about in 2017: NYC’s Central Park “bucked the tragedy of the commons. Can America's school systems do the same?” @lausdsup.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/education/ar...

COMMENTARY: California doesn’t need vouchers. It needs to fix its public schools Vouchers claim that competition will force public schools to improve. But it's a false promise. We know how to fix public schools, and we have proved it in LAUSD.

Rather than “handing out vouchers & hoping market forces fix what decades of neglect have broken,” the Partnership for L.A. Schools works with LAUSD “to strengthen … schools, using philanthropic dollars.” Investment in the public commons. Not in fences. @edsource.org edsource.org/2026/voucher...

Court Blocks Trump-Vance Administration’s Unlawful Immigration Raids at Houses of Worship Ruling Affirms Religious Freedom and Stops DHS From Targeting Communities Boston, Mass. — The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued an order today in New England Synod…

Statement on behalf of San Francisco Friends Meeting and others in our suit: “As people of faith, our sacred spaces must remain places of safety, refuge, & worship.... Today’s ruling affirms a simple but profound principle: religious freedom belongs to everyone." democracyforward.org/news/press-r...

Do you know of a low-tech high school?

I'm looking for schools where teens aren't using laptops or iPads much if at all. I'm sure there are plenty of Waldorf schools, but ideally I'd find one where eschewing screens is its own thing, not a corollary of another pedagogical philosophy.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

“Biden stopped holding families there in 2021, arguing America shouldn’t be in the business of detaining children. But quickly after returning to office … Trump resumed family detentions as part of his mass deportation campaign.” @micarosenberg.bsky.social 3/3 www.propublica.org/article/life...

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

“Moms told me that their kids had lost their appetites after finding worms & mold on their food, had trouble sleeping on … hard metal bunk beds in rooms shared by at least 12 other people, & were constantly sick.” @micarosenberg.bsky.social for @propublica.org 2/3 www.propublica.org/article/life...

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Gustavo Santiago, 13, told @micarosenberg.bsky.social, “I have friends, school, and family here .… To this day, I don’t know what we did wrong to be detained.” He ended: “I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.” @propublica.org 1/3 www.propublica.org/article/life...

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

Talk about waste: “A new report from a government watchdog suggests the Trump administration's efforts to fire staff at the U.S. Department of Education cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.” www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

Even the Hospitals Aren’t Safe in Iran As the regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities.

“The Iranian regime, in addition to arresting protesters, has started targeting anyone who has attempted to help them…. Iranian doctors, lawyers, and journalists … described a campaign of quiet terror in the wake of the massacres.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...