Education
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NEA has 99 problems but a pitch ain’t one
A National Education Association document details the compiled results of a brainstorming session of the union’s state affiliate leaders and…
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Obama administration slams ‘white suburban moms’ over Common Core
Always someone else’s fault… In what many consider a condescending attitude, one of the Obama administration cabinet members has very…
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College invites PETA activist who called for ‘vicious’ rape of women who eat meat
Are the leather-vested Hells Angels next…? Eastern Michigan University (EMU) has reportedly hosted controversial animal activist Gary Yourofsky to lecture…
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Schools relax restrictions on head lice, parents bugged
How much is little Johnny’s privacy or easily bruised feelings worth to the parents of his classmates? Let’s put that…
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School district size and the Goldilocks problem
Over the last century, the number of school districts in the United States has shrunk even as the population has…
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School forbids students to wear t-shirts memorializing classmate who died of cancer
If you thought school policies couldn’t get any sillier than suspending a 7-year-old for biting a toaster pastry into the shape…
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Teacher’s union head suggests Jewish parent a neo-Nazi for questioning assignment
Josh Barry, of Camp Hill, Penn., is hopping mad after the head of a local teacher’s union suggested he may…
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Blue-collar support for McAuliffe frays at the edges
Union solidarity? Not so much for Terry McAuliffe. Big Labor bosses are backing the Democrat in his Virginia gubernatorial race against…
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Common Core’s latest: Teach 2nd-graders to salute Big Labor and Cesar Chavez
Earlier this year, “educators” in Texas had sixth-graders design their own socialist/communist flag. Supporters of the project maintained that its goal…
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Preschool prohibits lunches from home unless they are accompanied by doctor's note
What’s cooking at your child’s preschool? Not you, if you send your child to a certain unnamed preschool in Richmond,…
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New poverty study: 48% of all public school children qualify as low-income
If you are an American who believes that our nation’s best days are behind us, here is a startling and…
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HS principal orders students to forgo Pledge of Allegiance, citing shutdown
If “the foundation of every state is the education of its youth,” as Diogenes supposedly wrote, the threat of a…
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Mandatory student activities fees used to pay for masturbation lecture at public university
As I intimated in a previous report about a university that was planning a masturbation tutorial for its students, if doing…
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Jimmy Kimmel asks Americans which they prefer: Obamacare or Affordable Care Act
I’m not sure which polls late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel is citing in his prefatory remarks, which include the claim…
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School district apologizes for indoctrination video pledging allegiance to Obama
Is it possible to unwatch a video? The Hudson (Wisc.) School District certainly hopes so. It has even issued an…
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U. of MD prof’s email to students: Trayvon Martin case proves it’s ‘legal to hunt, kill children’
If it wasn’t obvious before why Barack Obama is so bullish on increasing college enrollment even as reports suggest the marketplace…
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Louisiana school teaches fourth graders about ‘pimps’ and ‘mobstaz’
“I try to instill values in my son,” lamented parent Brittney Badeaux. “My goal is for him to ultimately to…
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About that history textbook that rewrites the Second Amendment
If you are a user of Twitter, you are probably aware that the hashtag #SecondAmendment trends on and off. Recently,…
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Memphis teacher tells 10-year-old she can’t choose God as her ‘idol’
It appears to be a safe bet that Shelby County Schools in Memphis won’t be assigning Robert Lee Scott, Jr.’s…
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