Ty Lawson’s 53-game tenure with the Houston Rockets was largely a failed experiment, as the Washington Post’s Neil Greenberg prognosticated in July. The prediction came full circle when the franchise bought out his contract Tuesday before the league’s waiver deadline.
“I was like, before I even came to the team, I was talking to James Harden. I was like, ‘Man, get me over there.’ I’ll be that piece to get over the hump,” Lawson told ESPN. Read More...
I watched a White officer assassinate a Black man, and I know that tore your heart out.
And I know it's crippling.
And I have nothing positive to say in this moment, 'cause I don't want to be here.
But I'm responsible to be here because it wasn't just Dr. King and people dressed nicely who marched and protested to progress this city and so many other cities.
It was people like my grandmother, people like my aunt and uncles. Read More...
Home schooling has become — by a wide margin — America’s fastest-growing form of education, as families from Upper Manhattan to Eastern Kentucky embrace a largely unregulated practice once confined to the ideological fringe, a Washington Post analysis shows.
The analysis — based on data The Post collected for thousands of school districts across the country — reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the onset of the pandemic has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions that most families would return to schools that have dispensed with mask mandates and other covid-19 restrictions. Read More...
