Education
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The latest decision adults are deferring to their children: whether to do homework
'I hate homework. It stresses me out,' Keeley told CBS New York. It's not hard to imagine the boy in 15…
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Former Teacher of the Year dropped from state licensing board for calling Trump a ‘sh*thole’
Academia is overrun with liberals. Examples of this abound. Yet every now and then, a story emerges that reveals that…
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Kindergarten graduations are cute, except when they take place in Gaza
Pre-schoolers carrying mock guns and rifles simulated Islamic Jihad militants storming an Israeli building on “Al-Quds Street," capturing a child…
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Retired English teacher ‘corrects’ letter from president, sends it back marked up *UPDATE*
Ultimately, this is all just another silly hit job on the president by another detractor.
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NYC high school holds moment of silence for Hamas: Parents incensed
'In the last round of confrontations 62 people were martyred, 50 of them were Hamas.' That is what Salah al-Bardawil, one…
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What is really driving the epidemic of mass shootings?
In and of itself, the copycat phenomenon is nothing new. What is new, however, is the impact of the 24-hour…
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Shooting at Houston-area high school, ‘multiple fatalities’ reported
The school district has confirmed an unspecified number of injuries but said it wouldn't immediately release further details.
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CT school phones police after student builds gun out of Legos
A spokesperson for New Haven Public Schools said that 'school leaders and local police partners were able to investigate and…
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Fifth-grade autistic student handcuffed, hauled off to juvenile hall for aiming imaginary rifle
I can certainly empathize with Lambright and feel his pain. Ditto for David's art teacher. I've never been in the line…
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Teacher suspended after discussing her sexual orientation in class sues school district
Is she suing the district for violating her right to freedom speech? In a sense yes, though the court documents…
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The dismal economic future augured by the ‘Nation’s Report Card’
The hard truth is future employment prospects for legions of low-achieving students are a massive growing problem clearly seen in…
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Mural at CA school depicts severed head of president on a pike
The article reveals that the painting was made by students and "invited artists" during a fundraising event at the school…
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Whodunnit in which human feces were left on school grounds is solved; it wasn’t the butler
Kenilworth (N.J.) School District School Thomas Tramaglini must have thought his job really stunk and that the best way of…
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Students at one university can now earn credit for ‘unmasking whiteness’
We are reminded almost daily of something we already knew: that some Americans (including whites!) have fared less well when…
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Student activists demand ‘reparations,’ elimination of white authors from humanities course
What can you learn from reading Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, or any of those other dead white dudes that lived like — I don't…
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Parent outraged over sexually explicit question found on HS homework assignment
Schools know what's good for their young charges. They know that firearms and prayer are bad. They also know that…
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The University of Utah has a special closet for students to cry in
The University of Utah is featuring a “cry closet” on campus that students can inhabit for up to 10 minutes,…
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Now David Hogg is calling for a boycott of two major investment firms: Will Wall Street listen?
"When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen" read the tagline from an for the brokerage firm that was popular in the 1970s…
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Statue of Thomas Jefferson vandalized on his birthday, ‘racist + rapist’ scrawled
UVA students, alumni, and community members previously plastered a sign reading “Black Lives Matter — F*** White Supremacy” to the…
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Texas college bans Jewish group from setting foot on campus
Students for Justice in Palestine is funded by American Muslims for Palestine, which was founded by individuals who donated $12.4…
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In response to Parkland shootings, one school district ‘arms’ its teachers (well, kind of)
The most salient, not to mention controversial, feature of the program, recently signed into law, is that it would allow…
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Young Democratic Socialist students at one university demand campus police disarm
'Armed police create an environment of coercion, not consent,' alleged the students.
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College paying students to promote abortion rights
The school’s women’s center will pay at least $9.25 an hour to promote reproductive justice and LGBTQ issues.
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Parkland kids returning to school whine that it feels like jail; CNN feels their pain
We live in an era where events have necessitated previously unimaginable levels of security in public places. Much of it…
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Teacher forces students to write letters to Congress demanding stricter gun control
'We would never approve of a politically biased assignment or directive given by a teacher,' — District spokesman after the…
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Finally: GWU offers ‘Christian privilege’ training for students and faculty
Nostra culpa, nostra culpa, nostra maxima culpa!
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PA school district is preemptively arming students with this weapon in case of a shooter
Doesn't this violate their zero tolerance policy, which already punishes students who bring lethal weapons such as toaster pastries and…
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Four colleges have now rejected David Hogg, but he’s still ‘changing the world’
More discouraging still is that his crusade to change the world may be backfiring.
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Cameron Kasky: It’s not mental health but the weapon that makes shootings happen
Yesterday a rarity occurred. One of the three teen "spokespeople" from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School deigned to make an…
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New proposal for reducing school violence has David Hogg and pals crying ‘foul’
For the past month, a group of vocal, ostensibly liberal students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.,…
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To detect violence and stop shootings, schools are now monitoring students’ social media
As America tries to find solutions to persisting and significant problems like school shootings, there will always be push-back from…
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Unreal: Kindergartner sodomized by classmates, who recorded video
If the tale weren't already grisly enough, school officials did not protect the victim, turning a blind eye to the abuse…
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A month after Parkland shooting, deputy assigned to Stoneman Douglas HS found sleeping on job
Maybe until decisive action is taken, beginning with the firing of Sheriff Scott Israel, the hashtag #NeverAgain, which has attained…
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Student kicked out of Christian theology class for challenging transgenderism wins appeal
IUP president Michael Driscoll sent an email to the student body Monday saying that he was disappointed in the university…
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Whole Hogg: #NeverAgain leader speaks out on women, minorities, white privilege
On Monday, Hogg and cohorts Cameron Kasky and Emma Gonzalez took part in a fact-free Twitter event to speak about their #NeverAgain…
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When fear strikes out: Kindergartners participate in walkout protesting gun violence
When students permitted to leave school for a protest march are too young to cross the street by themselves, something…
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