What Nikole Hannah-Jones Doesn’t Say

Her mea culpa about her daughter’s schooling is neither brave nor admirable.My daughter,” wrote Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2024, “is not worth more than any other child.” This assessment was offered as part of a reflection on a New York Times essay that Hannah-Jones had written eight years earlier on the subject of choosing an appropriate school. In tandem, she imparted two other reflections: that the school she’d made such a commotion about picking was clearly “failing”; and that, regardless, she still believed she had “made the right choice.”Two years later, she has changed her mind. Or, rather: Two years later,...