Author: Jerry Leger

The vote itself was hardly exciting at all. Standard 206, the diversity, equity, and inclusion requirement that had controlled how the nation’s more than 200 accredited law schools recruited students and faculty, was finally repealed by the council that oversees law school accreditation after a year of suspension, drafts, and quiet hallway discussions within the American Bar Association. There was neither a big announcement nor a press conference broadcast on television. Just a procedural ruling that, depending on who you ask, either quietly removes one of the last institutional safeguards of a profession that has spent decades insisting it cares…

At a Friday night lacrosse game in Fargo, the game’s speed isn’t the first thing you notice. The parking lot is where it is. Parents juggling folding chairs and cold travel mugs of coffee, pickup trucks jammed up against minivans, children running between cars in muddy cleats. It would have been difficult to find a dozen people watching five years ago. The overflow now stands two or three deep along the chain-link fence as the bleachers fill up before the first faceoff. Hockey has always been popular in North Dakota. Depending on the small town you grew up in, it…

It’s not common for Lithia, Florida, to appear on national news feeds. The rumble of school buses pulling into pickup lanes is the loudest sound on a weekday morning in this peaceful area of Hillsborough County. In that context, Barrington Middle School is unremarkable, much like the majority of middle schools in the United States. Up until this week. On Monday, May 18, a 14-year-old boy named Noah Carter took out his phone during art class and recorded something that, depending on who you ask, was either a thoughtless prop or something much uglier. In the video, which was uploaded…

Hours before anyone was expected to arrive, on Wednesday afternoon, the parking lot in front of Brick Memorial High School began to fill up. A few parents were standing close to their cars, chatting softly and avoiding eye contact. A small bouquet of flowers had been left by someone close to the curb. It’s the kind of detail that, even before anything has officially started, makes a place feel different. Following a collision that claimed the life of a 15-year-old freshman on Tuesday morning, a vigil was scheduled for 7 p.m. In a GoFundMe page created to assist with funeral…

When most students hear the term “AP Seminar exam,” they envision something expansive—the kind of test that takes up an entire school day and leaves you blinking at three in the afternoon under fluorescent lights. The reality is shorter, and in some way, this shortness contributes to people’s confusion. The two-hour AP Seminar exam is given at the end of the course. That’s all. Sitting in front of a screen for 120 minutes while using the Bluebook testing app, a timer moves in a way that feels both too fast and too slow. On Monday, May 11, 2026, the exam…

The 120-minute duration of the AP Psychology exam conceals a lot of nuance. When you’re looking at a syllabus in March, two hours seems like a long time. Around question seventy in May, when your pencil is sweating against your fingers and a passage about operant conditioning suddenly reads like a foreign language, it feels much shorter. The sound of the proctor’s footsteps, the soft scratch of graphite, and someone flipping a page too forcefully two desks away all contribute to the unique silence in those rooms. Those who have witnessed it recall the quiet more than the questions. The…

You could sense something old and familiar emerging in the town on a gloomy May morning when the email reached Kirklees College and the alarms started to sound, forcing students out of their classrooms. Be concerned. Doubt. the feeling that an unplanned announcement is never beneficial. Parents in Huddersfield refreshed local news pages and waited for two hours after the sites went into precautionary lockdown at 10:30 AM. The lockdown was lifted at 12:30 PM after the police described it as a hoax and a malevolent act of theater. Life continued. But when something goes wrong, it’s difficult to ignore…

The Year 11 students can be seen shuffling across the parking lot of any secondary school in England in late May. They have clear pencil cases and that distinct expression of someone who hasn’t slept well in a week. Typically, they carry a scientific calculator—the same Casio model that has been subtly taking over British classrooms for more than 20 years. And the question that looms over the majority of them—including those who have made revisions—is surprisingly simple. In reality, how long will this last? Three papers totaling four and a half hours make up the short answer. Each one…

Zach Yadegari’s rejection list, which he shared with X on the final day of March 2025, is notable for its apparent cleanliness. Three green checks and eighteen schools make up a neat column of red Xs. Yes, Stanford, but not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, or Georgia Tech. The type of grid you would anticipate from a young person with a 2.9 and a part-time job at the mall, not from an 18-year-old managing an app that he claims generates $30 million annually. That’s what drew people in. After he published the essay, the conversation’s tone completely changed in a matter…

Walking past a public high school gym on a Friday night in late autumn gives you a certain feeling. The bleachers smell slightly of floor polish and old wood, the parking lot is half full, and a parent is arguing about a missed call somewhere close to the concession stand. It seems to have been around for ages. However, the trophies inside those gyms are becoming more and more dusty, while buses leaving campuses with well-kept lawns and annual tuition costs exceeding $20,000 are transporting the brand-new ones home. In American high school athletics, something has changed and has been…