• “Feds Punish Princeton For Liking Due Process Too Much” [Robby Soave, Reason; earlier]
• Despite outcome in California superintendent race, last week a major defeat for teachers’ union politics [RiShawn Biddle] UFT has outlasted school reform efforts in New York City, bad news for kids and parents there [Daniel DiSalvo]
• Global look at perceptions of risk and shrinking play opportunities for children [Blair Barrows, Common Good]
• Feds another step closer to clamping Title IX goals-and-quotas on collegiate club and intramural sports [American Sports Council]
• Link roundup: commenters who expressed doubts about this summer’s Vergara v. California decision on grounds other than actually liking the system of teacher tenure [Andrew Coulson, Orin Kerr, Will Baude, Larry Sand/City Journal, Eric Posner, Daniel Fisher, Richard Epstein]
• More cases spur criticism of zero-tolerance knife policies [WJBK, The Truth About Knives (Atiya Haynes, Dearborn Heights, Mich.); WOIO (Da’von Shaw, Bedford, Ohio]
• University of Oregon student government leader seeks to shut down critical blogs for being mean [Popehat]

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