Education
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One state’s ‘brilliant’ fix to stopping students from opting out of Common Core
It’s one of the oldest tricks in business. Your product or service isn’t selling, so you change the name. How…
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Liberal Congressman: Expel innocent students accused of sexual assault
When due process is eroded for a disfavored class of people, many innocent people are harmed, and the exception to…
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Politically correct speech codes on campus ridiculed by … WHO?
Announcements of new microaggressions and trigger warnings on college campuses are becoming so common an occurrence that you shouldn’t be surprised…
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Yale Law School to open Sharia law center on campus
Yale Law School, the most elite law school in the country, has received a $10 million donation to establish a…
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A dictionary for the modern campus activist who has everything (but a brain)
Modern students arriving on college campuses today will find themselves learning about far more than just mathematics, writing, science, and…
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To avoid sexual assault charges, students at Ohio State must be able to agree on ‘why’ they had sex
Years ago, there was a show on television called “The Newlywed Game.” The purpose was to find out how well…
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U. of California may give students (well, some studens) right not to be offended
The University of California system, now under the watchful eye of former Obama Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano, has been…
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#BlackLivesMatter leader headed to jail — er, make that Yale
What’s that they say about the squeaky well? Oh, that’s right: that it gets a teaching gig at one of the…
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Poll: Overwhelming majority say campus sexual assaults are matter for police, not administrators
Whether campus sexual assault is a problem of epidemic proportions, as liberals argue, or merely a product of their imagination, as conservatives…
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California will give free high school diplomas to kids who flunked out
It’s the ultimate participation trophy. Except in this case, the majority of the recipients won’t have participated, and many won’t…
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Study: About half of all LEGAL immigrant households are on welfare
Legal immigrant households dominate welfare use in the United States, a new study shows. About half of all legal immigrant…
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Quelle surprise: U.S. college students don’t know squat about the Constitution
Students enrolled in colleges in the U.S. may not know much about history or what a slide rule is for, but at…
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Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IX
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, is gradually turning Title IX into a license…
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Teen born as girl but self-identifying as male wants to use boy’s bathroom; judge rules
Yesterday LU had in its Web Crawler section an excerpt from an article at The Blaze by Matt Walsh discussing…
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What is Facebook’s next target? Lock up the kids
Facebook is taking its first steps into the world of online education, the company announced Thursday, launching an plan that could…
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Andrew Cuomo says Common Core is ‘not working’
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Thursday that Common Core is “not working” in the state and is in need of a…
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Parents of children at NJ daycare horrified to learn THIS was going on
It’s hard to imagine the shock parents must have felt when they learned that employees of the school they were…
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Michigan teachers union using sneaky tactic to stop members from quitting
The state teachers union in Michigan has been caught trying to keep members from leaving under right-to-work by requiring them…
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Another university threatens to punish students who fail to mind their Ps and Cs
When it rains political correctness, it pours. Earlier, LU reported on the policy of faculty members Washington State University who said they…
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WSU faculty will lower students’ grades or even fail them for saying WHAT? *UPDATE*
In these politically correct times, students at the nation’s colleges need to maintain a constant state of vigilance if they are…
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Just when you thought political correctness couldn’t get any crazier…
This is a new one. Admittedly, when I first read this story, I thought it was fake news from the…
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‘LGBT’ graphic-novel flap at Duke: Why ‘P.C.’ itself shuts down our minds
Epistemic vacuum-seal.
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Guess who gets the blame for 9/11 in UNC’s ‘Literature of 9/11’ course?
In case you’re having difficulty with the challenge in the headline, I’ll tell you that the course is not taught…
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Black Lives Matter activists: Only criminals’ lives matter
Murders are up 43% this year in Washington, D.C., yet when the City’s black mayor, Muriel Bowser, proposed an increased police…
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Boston U. prof’s apology for THIS practice by ISIS will blow your mind
Liberal Boston University professor and Muslim apologist Kecia Ali recently wrote an article for the Huffington Post that attempted to…
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You won’t believe who Think Progress commenters blame Virginia shootings on
Virginia shooter Vesper Flanagan murdered two of his former co-workers at a TV station in cold blood. After killing the…
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Harvard prof: Islamic State may be evil, but you know who’s at least as bad?
Liberals in academe say the darnedest things. Take Harvard University’s Noah Feldman … please! Feldman, who teaches constitutional and international law, has a…
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Texas students given most stunningly intrusive home survey ever? *UPDATE*: Classroom exercise in bias analysis
All your lives are belong to us.
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Chicago parents take DESPERATE action to protest Rahm Emanuel’s school policies
Parents in Chicago have endured a hunger strike lasting over a week to protest the local board of education’s decision to…
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NY Common Core advocate’s THREAT to parents
Newly minted state Education Commissioner has prepared for battle with parents and teachers who support opting students out of Common…
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Amazing stats show where Texas public school funding really goes
In a Texas Supreme Court showdown, school-reform groups are escalating the fight over education financing. Countering teacher-union claims that state…
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