One of the myths surrounding the Common Core State Standards is that it banishes poetry from schools. In a column today, two academics in the writing field dispatch with that fallacy and explain why there’s a lot of silliness being blamed on Common Core. Against the backdrop of Labor Day, a school choice advocate decries the lack of options in Georgia for parents to choose their children’s school and set them on a better path to employment. And readers share their views on a call to push back the start of the school day in deference to the sleeping patterns of teens.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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