Education
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This ‘poetry’ lesson resulted in teacher being pulled from classroom
Confusing doggerel and poetry is nothing new in American schools in the age of political correctness and inclusiveness. But one…
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College Board, pressured by critics, will eliminate ‘anti-American language’ from U.S. history exam
The pendulum has swung back in the other direction. After being bullied by liberals into revising its take on American history…
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New York State cracks down on guns … toy guns
The New York State Attorney General’s Office announced a settlement with major retail stores that will further ban the sale of…
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Texas fails school-choice test
Free marketer Milton Friedman would surely be perplexed by the state of education in Texas. The late Nobel Prize-winning economist…
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Teachers union demands Chris Christie resign as governor for saying THIS
The head of New Jersey’s biggest teachers union is calling for Gov. Chris Christie’s head after he said the union’s national…
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New House bill would protect college students accused of campus rape
A trio of House Republicans have introduced a new bill that seeks to guarantee due process when college students are…
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You won’t believe which word a PC college language guide deems offensive
Only in America is such a thing possible! A “Bias-Free Language Guide” in use at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) labels…
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Amherst College’s unbelievable response to a rape lawsuit
Amherst College, battling a lawsuit from a student who claims he was wrongly expelled after a bogus sexual assault allegation, has…
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Saying ‘free tampons would slow gender inequality’ is so un-PC
Many moons ago, when “Saturday Night Live” was still occasionally funny, the show featured a skit that revolved around a fictitious…
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Interview with author Heidi Kingstone: A women’s perspective of life in Afghanistan
On July 8, Afghanistan’s first female nominee for the country’s supreme court, Anisa Rassouli, failed to win enough votes in…
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New transgender guidelines will allow boys to play on girls’ sports teams and vice versa
Various entities across New York could earn a gold medal in gymnastics for all the back-bending they’re doing to accommodate…
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Health plans at NJ colleges will now cover genital makeovers
Nose jobs are still on your own dime. But if you are enrolled at one of five New Jersey universities and…
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Republicans crush Democrats’ effort to impose Obama’s global warming agenda on schools
Senate Republicans soundly defeated an attempt by Democrats to get the federal government more involved in state’s Common Core standards…
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Black professor plagiarizes Wikipedia, receives slap on wrist
An Arizona State University professor has been caught repeatedly plagiarizing material for textbooks that list him as author. If that’s not bad enough,…
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Professor who called Amy Schumer racist has never seen her comedic material
A column published last week in the Washington Post blasting comedian Amy Schumer as a racist was written by a critic who never bothered to…
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One high school’s outrageous ‘solution’ to the problem of low graduation rates
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. And those who can’t teach, cheat. New York’s NBC affiliate WNBC reports…
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Federal financial aid triggers tuition increases, study says
The federal government is now admitting that its own financial aid is partly to blame for rising tuition, notes Blake…
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The nation’s biggest Common Core test circling the drain
Arkansas’s board of education voted Thursday to dump a national standardized test aligned with Common Core math and science standards,…
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If you define ‘family’ as ‘a group of people related by blood,’ give yourself an F
Another day, another attempt to cleanse the English language of its white-centric, male-dominated nomenclature. This particular lesson comes from a strange…
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Next symbol to be cleansed of its shameful Confederate connections: U.S. Constitution
Liberals have been busy, busy, running around the country literally tagging every statue or other public monument that somehow in their imaginings…
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Now school principals have body cams, too
Body cameras, which police departments are implementing around the country, are also making their way to a surprising new venue:…
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How knowing punctuation helped one woman beat a parking ticket
When I taught freshman composition some years ago, my students would challenge me on the utility of learning grammar and punctuation.…
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Dolezal redux: Top American Indian scholar outed as phony
Alternate title: When Rachel (Dolezal) Met Elizabeth (Warren) Just a few weeks after Dolezal transfixed the nation with her bogus claims…
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Tweet of the Day: Black U. Memphis prof who equated whiteness with terrorism is fired
White bashing — vilifying white people on social media, mostly Twitter — has become all the rage among faculties on American college campuses. It’s easy…
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Canada court rules right to gay sex trumps religious liberty
A court in Canada has upheld the denial of accreditation to a Christian law school, holding that the private school’s…
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Tweet of the Day: Chicago prof. proposes drastic remedy for your whiteness
White derangement syndrome.
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Syracuse U. professor claims reason itself is a white male construct
It’s fair to say that there’s no reasoning with John Caputo, who teached philosophy and religion professor at Syracuse University. The professor…
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Telling students they can succeed by working hard? That’s a microaggression at U. Wisconsin campus
Not since the invention of The Magic 8 Ball® has there been a more complete set of predictions than the one recently…
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You won’t believe what happened to this third grader for opting out of Common Core testing
How far will a school go to “incentivize” parents into participating in Common Core? If the actions of one New Jersey…
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‘Mattress Girl’ accused of organized ‘anti-male’ campaign
Paging Emma Sulkowicz! Paging Emma Sulkowicz! Your 15 minutes of fame are up! Sulkowicz is the Columbia University graduate immortalized as “Mattress…
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Woman recruited for Harvard’s female swimming team swaps sex, will swim for men instead
Schuyler Bailar had something she wanted to get off her chest before heading off to college. And judging from pictures she…
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Nevada’s Common Core tests turn into costly fiasco
A new, online standardized test designed to assess Nevada schoolchildren on Common Core standards has been a huge fiasco in its first year, with the vast…
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