What Nikole Hannah-Jones Learned From Her Daughter’s School

Nikole Hannah-Jones ignores who failed her daughter — the teachers union

Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a failing public school despite being a multimillionaire to make a point: That she’s not a hypocrite who sends her children to private school like other school-choice opponents.

What Nikole Hannah-Jones Learned from Her Daughter’s School

Over the weekend, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist behind The 1619 Project, published an essay asking, strikingly, if she had betrayed her own child. A decade ago, she and her husband felt an “obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just [their] individual advantage.” Dedicated to the cause, Hannah-Jones and her husband enrolled their kindergarten daughter in a low-performing, urban public school across t…

Coleman Hughes on Nikole Hannah-Jones’ School Experiment. Plus. . .

It’s Tuesday, September 22. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Alex Berenson on why he’s fearful of AI—and what we can do about it. Jed Rubenfeld on the three media outlets suing Trump for shutting them out of the White House. Arthur Brooks on why relying on AI writing will make you unhappy. And much more.But first: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ school experiment.In 2014, …

On Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Disappointment in the Public Schools She Chose for Her Daughter

A decade ago, superstar journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote the cover story of the New York Times Magazine about her decision to send her daughter to a local public school, which was segregated and enrolled a large proportion of low-income students, instead of choosing a high-performing public school, a charter school, or an elite private school. […]

Choosing a bad school: 'I failed my values and my child'

She sent her daughter to a low-performing school, thinking she could make it better. It didn't work.