The change that we need to see. After a Super Saturday for team gb at the Winter Olympics, well hear from skeleton stars Lizzy Yarnold and laura deas live here on breakfast. And theres been another near miss from tgv today as james woods just missed out on another medal in the skiing slopestyle. Ill have all the details and will be speaking to laura and lizzy in pyeongchang. Good morning. Its a mild and cloudy day out there today. There will be a bit of rain in the west. A full forecast in about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The husband of murdered mpjo cox has resigned from two charities he set up in her memory after allegations of Sexual Harassment were made public. Mr cox denies assaulting a woman at Harvard University in 2015 but admits to inappropriate behaviour while working for save the children. The murder ofjo cox in 2016 shocked the nation. The labour mp, who was also a mother of two small children, was murdered by a far right extremist during the Eu Refere
For some, this is civil progress a demonstration of respect for minorities and their inclusion. For others, it is at best, pc gone mad. Or at worst, a new creed of liberal authoritarianism. Well discuss the implications in a few minutes, but first Katie Razzall reports on the arguments over who can say what at university. Im kat and i use she or they pronouns. I think its hard to explain what micro aggression is. A safe space is not necessarily a physical space. Sculpted by the people its meant to be for. To older generations its a whole new language. But, on campus, terms like no platforming, safe spaces, micro aggressions and preferred pronouns are increasingly the norm. Im clara and i use she, her, her pronouns. Im molly and use she, her pronouns as well. New terms are one thing but those that use them are accused by critics of an assault on free speech. The latest spat involves the former labour politician linda bellos, a lesbian activist and feminist. She was no platformed recentl
The countrys youngest Prime Minister in 150 years. And the death of stalin is armando iannuccis satirical take on the dictators final hours. Well find out what mark kermode thinks of it, in the film review. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Eu leaders have agreed to start internal preparations for talks with britain on a future trade deal, but have rejected theresa mays request to begin those negotiations as soon as possible. The remaining 27 said not enough progress had been made in the talks on britains divorce, in particular, how much the government was prepared to pay in a financial settlement. This report from our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg contains flashing images. Tick tock, tick tock. European leaders took 90 seconds today to decide that brexit talks havent gone far enough to move on. Time is pressing. They will start talks about talks. Yet until the uk says it is prepared to pay, no big deal. Im ambitious and positive for britains future for these negotiations but i
When it resumes shortly, as i said, about ten minutes from now. While we wait, more on education now as the new school year is just getting underway for many School Systems around the nation. We look at challenges facing Public Schools in a discussion on this mornings washington journal. Host guest at our desk is the director of the National School Boards Association. As we dive into the topic of local School Boards and todays education debates, first, tell us about your group and its mission. Guest well, the National School Boards Association really represents our state associations of School Boards, and theyre the ones that have the membership of the local School Boards. Local School Boards are comprised typically of folks out of the community who have an in Public Education. So while theyre usually elected, some are appointed. Typically elected, most frequently not paid, so they do this as a civic duty. And because they have a concern about good Public Schools in their communities.
And theres a paper forthcomingr for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for ie hispanics which actually shows e the way that hispanic students o choose colleges. If we believe that the ranking excuse me, the ratings system is a de facto ranking, which i, in fact, think it will become, we know hispanic students dont use rankings. In fact, around 16 of latinos cited in harrys own data, that rankings were an importantpa z factor in their choice process. So congratulations again to the authors an their paper, particularly nunez and rodriguez and thank you for having me. Mary beth . All right. Lets see. A i guess i need a microphone. Okay. So im responding to Silvia Hurtado and her colleagues paper. Im going to be short and sweet here because i am short and sweet. I thought id get that in there. So i really enjoyed silvias yed paper. I wanted i think its really. Important that you read this paper for a number of reasons. Wa one of the things i liked the nd most is in the ve