Gail Cornwall
@gailcornwall.com
Former teacher & lawyer who now works as a mother & writer. Bylines for the Atlantic, Nation, NYT, Good Housekeeping, Guardian, New York Mag, USA Today, & many more. Stories tackle education, psychology, parenting, etc.
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Gail Cornwall
@gailcornwall.com
· Nov 11
The hidden financial aid hurdle derailing college students
Little-known rules requiring that students make ‘satisfactory academic progress’ to receive federal grants have derailed countless college students. But legislators are finally taking notice.
hechingerreport.org
A little-known requirement meant to incentivize academic performance has been doing the opposite for decades, disqualifying capable students from financial aid for life & becoming “a de facto end” to their education. It’s not fair or smart. My latest for @hechingerreport.org & @washingtonpost.com.
“following Operation Metro Surge: as many as 1,700 students left the Minnesota school districts & charter schools with the highest percentage of English learners.
“Kids literally disappeared,” said the superintendent of Fridley Public Schools. “Overnight.” sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
“Kids literally disappeared,” said the superintendent of Fridley Public Schools. “Overnight.” sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
Minnesota schools lost at least 1,700 students after ICE operation
A Sahan Journal data analysis shows student enrollment declined in Minnesota school districts with the highest percentage of English learners after the federal immigration operation. For some, the los...
sahanjournal.com
September 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
“following Operation Metro Surge: as many as 1,700 students left the Minnesota school districts & charter schools with the highest percentage of English learners.
“Kids literally disappeared,” said the superintendent of Fridley Public Schools. “Overnight.” sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
“Kids literally disappeared,” said the superintendent of Fridley Public Schools. “Overnight.” sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
Great news! I want the causality to be there, AND I’m left wondering how @osea.bsky.social and team accounted for comparing data collected near pandemic-era well-being lows (2022) to data collected after kids had a few years of relative normality under their belts (2025)? What’s the control group?
“California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study.” Vani Sanganeria for @edsource.org edsource.org/2026/califor...
Do later school start times help California students? Here’s what new study says
Later school start times can disrupt family schedules and cost districts money, but a new study says the benefits for sleep, mental health and academic achievement for California students makes the ch...
edsource.org
September 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Great news! I want the causality to be there, AND I’m left wondering how @osea.bsky.social and team accounted for comparing data collected near pandemic-era well-being lows (2022) to data collected after kids had a few years of relative normality under their belts (2025)? What’s the control group?
“California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study.” Vani Sanganeria for @edsource.org edsource.org/2026/califor...
Do later school start times help California students? Here’s what new study says
Later school start times can disrupt family schedules and cost districts money, but a new study says the benefits for sleep, mental health and academic achievement for California students makes the ch...
edsource.org
September 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
“California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study.” Vani Sanganeria for @edsource.org edsource.org/2026/califor...
“For student parents … balancing classes, parenting & … work—can make completing a degree more difficult.” In the Univ of Louisiana System’s new spaces, kids play with supervision while their parents study nearby. @joshuabay.bsky.social for @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Tackling Time Poverty for Student Parents
The University of Louisiana System is expanding support for student parents by addressing an overlooked barrier to success: finding time to study.
www.insidehighered.com
September 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
“For student parents … balancing classes, parenting & … work—can make completing a degree more difficult.” In the Univ of Louisiana System’s new spaces, kids play with supervision while their parents study nearby. @joshuabay.bsky.social for @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
To pressure people to accept deportation without a court ruling, the Trump administration has created conditions worse than those at many prisons - in the absence of a real safety threat and with plenty of funds on hand. @samtlevin.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back
In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
To pressure people to accept deportation without a court ruling, the Trump administration has created conditions worse than those at many prisons - in the absence of a real safety threat and with plenty of funds on hand. @samtlevin.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Why would the Trump admin get rid of hundreds of lawyers qualified to represent unaccompanied kids in immigration court & assign the work to those lacking experience & interest? To “pump up their deportation numbers on the backs of children,” says @acaciajustice.org www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense
After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them ...
www.newyorker.com
August 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Why would the Trump admin get rid of hundreds of lawyers qualified to represent unaccompanied kids in immigration court & assign the work to those lacking experience & interest? To “pump up their deportation numbers on the backs of children,” says @acaciajustice.org www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Excellent wide-angle lens on the inhumane, nonsensical “great delegalization” of the U.S.
TLDR: Congress hasn’t done much in over 35 years, essentially leaving the executive branch in charge. The Trump admin has stripped protection from more than a million people. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
TLDR: Congress hasn’t done much in over 35 years, essentially leaving the executive branch in charge. The Trump admin has stripped protection from more than a million people. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Excellent wide-angle lens on the inhumane, nonsensical “great delegalization” of the U.S.
TLDR: Congress hasn’t done much in over 35 years, essentially leaving the executive branch in charge. The Trump admin has stripped protection from more than a million people. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
TLDR: Congress hasn’t done much in over 35 years, essentially leaving the executive branch in charge. The Trump admin has stripped protection from more than a million people. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
You don’t need to kill a program to kill a program. And you don’t need to deport people to terrorize them. We told these folks - brought to the U.S. as kids - that they can safely work here. And we, the people, are breaking our promise. Shame on the U.S. Props to Cali. edsource.org/2026/daca-wo...
California lawmakers call for faster DACA renewals amid prolonged processing delays
A California Assembly resolution is urging the federal government to speed up DACA renewals as prolonged processing delays leave some educators unable to work.
edsource.org
August 15, 2026 at 2:49 PM
You don’t need to kill a program to kill a program. And you don’t need to deport people to terrorize them. We told these folks - brought to the U.S. as kids - that they can safely work here. And we, the people, are breaking our promise. Shame on the U.S. Props to Cali. edsource.org/2026/daca-wo...
Another clear-eyed look at the research from @mattbarnum.bsky.social: "Who should go to college? More students may benefit than we think." www.chalkbeat.org/2026/08/04/w...
The research on who benefits from college may surprise you
Studies in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Texas point in the same direction: Four-year college often helps students with modest high school records.
www.chalkbeat.org
August 4, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Another clear-eyed look at the research from @mattbarnum.bsky.social: "Who should go to college? More students may benefit than we think." www.chalkbeat.org/2026/08/04/w...
Take 2 minutes out of your day to really feel what AI has to do with the beauty of life, the LIFE of life, being found in clumsiness and “subtle imperfections.” shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...
Please Use AI
Be sure to use AI when making
shawnsmucker.substack.com
August 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Take 2 minutes out of your day to really feel what AI has to do with the beauty of life, the LIFE of life, being found in clumsiness and “subtle imperfections.” shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...
“[D]espite the evidence behind SRSD and similar approaches based on the science of writing, they haven’t made it into … classrooms.” @jackiemader.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org & @denverpost.com hechingerreport.org/the-next-lit...
The next literacy challenge: Teaching students how to write
After years of neglect, writing skills are getting more attention in school
hechingerreport.org
July 26, 2026 at 8:28 PM
“[D]espite the evidence behind SRSD and similar approaches based on the science of writing, they haven’t made it into … classrooms.” @jackiemader.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org & @denverpost.com hechingerreport.org/the-next-lit...
Excellent points by @jessgrose.bsky.social that are totally supported by emerging research on midlife as less crisis, more reflective opportunity. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...
Opinion | ‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Makes Middle Age Look Magical
Lately, the media loves to humiliate women in their 40s and 50s; this show reveres them.
www.nytimes.com
July 22, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Excellent points by @jessgrose.bsky.social that are totally supported by emerging research on midlife as less crisis, more reflective opportunity. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...
You know that feeling in an ice cream shop or Swarovski, where there are just so many tantalizing wonders that your eyes dart around, unable to focus on any one thing? This article by @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social is like that, only for atrocities & moral repugnance. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center
On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.
www.newyorker.com
July 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
You know that feeling in an ice cream shop or Swarovski, where there are just so many tantalizing wonders that your eyes dart around, unable to focus on any one thing? This article by @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social is like that, only for atrocities & moral repugnance. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Reposted by Gail Cornwall
Pointing out that ICE is murdering people they’re not looking for clearly isn’t to say it would be right for them to murder the people they are looking for. It’s to highlight how they are bringing roving terror and arbitrarily death to the whole US population. There’s no containing their threat.
July 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Pointing out that ICE is murdering people they’re not looking for clearly isn’t to say it would be right for them to murder the people they are looking for. It’s to highlight how they are bringing roving terror and arbitrarily death to the whole US population. There’s no containing their threat.
Science communication is hard. @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social makes it look easy in this incredibly readable, persuasive new article for @newyorker.com. What if modern healthmaxxers are tanking their wellness by chasing a wild goose? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
A new book argues that many of the world’s oldest people aren’t so old after all.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Science communication is hard. @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social makes it look easy in this incredibly readable, persuasive new article for @newyorker.com. What if modern healthmaxxers are tanking their wellness by chasing a wild goose? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Start reading this article for the horrifying stats. Stay for the well-reasoned, well-argued doomsdayism of wise-beyond-her-years Rose Horowitch. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
www.theatlantic.com
July 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Start reading this article for the horrifying stats. Stay for the well-reasoned, well-argued doomsdayism of wise-beyond-her-years Rose Horowitch. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
What an incredible profile in advocacy & care. @agawande.bsky.social's writing is uniquely crisp & moving. But he's shifted to podcast interviews & making a documentary, meeting the moment to save lives. Can you imagine putting aside your great strength like that? www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2026 at 7:52 PM
What an incredible profile in advocacy & care. @agawande.bsky.social's writing is uniquely crisp & moving. But he's shifted to podcast interviews & making a documentary, meeting the moment to save lives. Can you imagine putting aside your great strength like that? www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Beautifully crafted, persuasive take on an incredibly important topic from @jiatolentino.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare
As cosmetic procedures become both more invisible and more extreme, our connection to reality is fraying.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Beautifully crafted, persuasive take on an incredibly important topic from @jiatolentino.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Reposted by Gail Cornwall
Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder.
Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...
nebraskapublicmedia.org
July 3, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder.
Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
“this Administration is … bent on a maximalist campaign to close borders & expel as many migrants as possible, whether they are here legally or not. In this un-American endeavor, the … conservative majority is proving itself, once again, Trump’s willing accomplice.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Supreme Court Enables Trump’s Cruel Immigration Agenda
Two new rulings revoke the temporary protected status of refugees from Haiti and Syria, and make it easier for the Administration to prevent migrants from claiming asylum and to expel lawful refugees.
www.newyorker.com
June 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
“this Administration is … bent on a maximalist campaign to close borders & expel as many migrants as possible, whether they are here legally or not. In this un-American endeavor, the … conservative majority is proving itself, once again, Trump’s willing accomplice.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
THANK YOU to @soljourno.bsky.social for spreading the word about Edgar, other college students experiencing homelessness, & the innovative programs designed to ease their burden, at least a little, right away. And kudos to my editors @theguardian.com & @hechingerreport.org! Links in the comments.
June 26, 2026 at 12:30 AM
THANK YOU to @soljourno.bsky.social for spreading the word about Edgar, other college students experiencing homelessness, & the innovative programs designed to ease their burden, at least a little, right away. And kudos to my editors @theguardian.com & @hechingerreport.org! Links in the comments.
Another excellent, data-backed Ideas piece from Matt for @chalkbeat.org with practical implications for counselors, policymakers, parents, and anyone else involved in shaping the choices and futures of kids and adolescents, including students themselves.
New: Are there truly many, well-paid jobs available for those without a four-year degree? That's the emerging narrative; I looked at the data.
Tl:dr: This graph that breaks down occupation by annual wages and the share of workers who hold a four-year degree.
www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/23/s...
Tl:dr: This graph that breaks down occupation by annual wages and the share of workers who hold a four-year degree.
www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/23/s...
June 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Another excellent, data-backed Ideas piece from Matt for @chalkbeat.org with practical implications for counselors, policymakers, parents, and anyone else involved in shaping the choices and futures of kids and adolescents, including students themselves.
A brilliant, nuanced, and well-informed corrective from @sbkaufman.bsky.social: “the NY Mag piece is scientifically thin,” he writes, defending the validity of giftedness while arguing for opening the pedagogical gates to all manifestations of it. www.beautifulminds-newsletter.com/p/giftedness...
Giftedness Isn’t a Lie. It’s Just Much Broader Than We Realize.
A response to “The Mirage of the Gifted Child” (New York magazine)
www.beautifulminds-newsletter.com
June 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
A brilliant, nuanced, and well-informed corrective from @sbkaufman.bsky.social: “the NY Mag piece is scientifically thin,” he writes, defending the validity of giftedness while arguing for opening the pedagogical gates to all manifestations of it. www.beautifulminds-newsletter.com/p/giftedness...
Absolutely horrifying. www.newyorker.com/news/our-loc...
Taking Children from Their Parents Without a Court Order
A class-action lawsuit is challenging the emergency-removal practices of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services.
www.newyorker.com
June 16, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Absolutely horrifying. www.newyorker.com/news/our-loc...