Education
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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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Latest from Rutgers: There is no such thing as ‘free speech’
Rutgers, New Jersey’s state university, has been in the headlines repeatedly of late for outrageous statements made by members of its faculty…
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Which recent name in the news has become focus of course at prominent law school?
There is much that can be learned from the life of Freddie Gray. One conclusion that might be adduced from his…
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College administrator’s fix for over-policing: Stop treating shoplifting as crime
An administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested at a recent roundtable conversation that, in order to combat “overpolicing” in…
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At-risk teen slashed with machete, buried alive by fellow students
It is still unclear whether the unspeakably gruesome murder of a student in the Homestead, Fla., chapter of the Job Corps — a live-in…
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What would happen if schools bucked the trend toward diversity? See for yourself
In 2000, the left-leaning National Institute for Urban School Improvement issued a white paper (maybe rainbow paper is a more…
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You’re hired! Donald Trump for school boss?
Could Bill Gates or Donald Trump run a school district better than a lifelong professional educator? The Texas State Board for…
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How do teachers feel about Obama’s effort to regulate suspensions of minority students? New poll has the answers
American teachers show significant opposition to an Obama administration effort that pressures schools to suspend and expel fewer black and Hispanic students.…
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Fake, P.C. #NativeHistory ‘map porn’ storms Facebook
Infected with the Confirmation Virus.
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Meet the Human Rights Campaign’s gender-inclusive classroom guide
It’s the first day of school. The teacher, sporting an ear-to-ear smile, looks out at the fresh young faces of her…
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University ban on saggy pants assailed as racist
A college’s attempt to crack down on the wearing of saggy pants is being attacked as racist against black people. Henderson State…
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Find out why people are freaking out about this sorority’s recruitment video
A new recruitment video released by the sorority Alpha Phi at the University of Alabama has gone viral, attracting negative…
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NYS ed commissioner threatens schools, parents over Common Core opt-out numbers
It’s how Democrats do business in the Obama era. Any time schools, parents, and students mount a protest to the…
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University of Texas urged to remove statue of Woodrow Wilson
A panel at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) has issued a report recommending that the school remove its statues honoring…
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19-year-old coed joins Ferguson protests, but not in the way you might expect
Lexi Kozhevsky, a 19-year-old nursing student at St. Louis University, made the decision Monday night to head over to nearby Ferguson, where angry demonstrators…
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Duke students: White people are basically all Charleston shooter Dylann Roof
A group of Duke University students on a study abroad have written a collective editorial accusing all white Americans of “holding the…
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Another radical Rutgers professor sounds off on social media with a mind-boggling tweet
It’s hard to say which is the most liberal college in the known universe, but Rutgers, the state university of…
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College students today are unable to laugh about anything
A new article for the Atlantic magazine delves into the antiseptic world of college stand-up comedy, where the humor of a joke…
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College lays off hundreds, spends $950K on renovations to president’s mansion
It’s not only the U.S. president who lives like a king while claiming to identity with the “little people.” The University…
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