When we first ran the annual list of Project Censored’s top stories last year, I lamented the loss of journalist lives. The year was deadly, and 56 journalists worldwide were killed in 2018 for doing their duty to report current events and inform communities. So far 2019 has been less marked by lethal violence toward journalists, according to the Committee to Protect … [Read more...] about Through the Looking Glass: Project Censored’s top stories of the year
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NOTW: Texas tests, stolen breast milk and really amazing insects
SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED Schools’ standardized tests are often criticized as harmfully rigid, and in the latest version of the Texas Education Agency’s STAAR test, poet Sara Holbrook said she flubbed the “correct” answer for “author motivation”–in two of her own poems that were on the test. Writing in Huffington Post in January, a disheartened Holbrook lamented, “Kids’ futures and … [Read more...] about NOTW: Texas tests, stolen breast milk and really amazing insects