Education
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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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Obama administration pressures universities to adopt unconstitutional speech codes
Under the Obama administration, the Education Department has pressured universities and the public schools to restrict speech, including off campus…
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New York Times wonders whether competency tests are always racist
An article published Thursday in The New York Times focuses at length on the tests given to evaluate prospective teachers across the country, and…
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Point-counterpart: The liberal PRO-Shakespeare argument
Dana Dusbiber, the Sacramento high school teacher who recently committed to print her intention no longer to teach Shakespeare in part because…
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Michelle Obama to young Muslim women in UK: I feel your pain
How comforting to know that Barack Obama is not the only member of his family willing to diss the U.S. while on foreign…
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BREAKING: Rachel Dolezal saga’s final chapter? Resigns as Spokane NAACP head
Rachel Dolezal, the “black” activist who caused a national sensation when it was revealed she was actually white and faking her…
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HS teacher: I no longer assign Shakespeare to my students because he’s white
On Saturday, the Washington Post ran a guest editorial by a Sacramento schoolteacher that militates against assigning the works of Shakespeare to American high…
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WaPo tries to resurrect claim that 20% of women are sexually assaulted in college
The Washington Post has released a large new poll that it says buttresses activists’ claims that one woman in five is sexually…
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U. California faculty told calling America ‘land of opportunity’ is a ‘microaggression’
University of California (UC) president Janet Napolitano’s office has been training faculty members to avoid describing America as a “land…
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Latest national crisis: Children’s books have too many white faces
That’s not just opinion, Melanie Koss of the Northern Illinois University Department of Literacy and Elementary Education will tell you: It’s scientific “fact.” A…
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Prosecutors and colleges call dissent a ‘threat’ on campus and at Reason.com
The Supreme Court has said that “true threats” can be banned without violating the First Amendment, but that doesn’t mean…
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Obama administration to forgive up to $3.6 billion in student loans
The Department of Education announced Monday that it is implementing a plan to forgive as much as $3.6 billion in student loans…
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Las Vegas strip club advertises job openings for recent high school grads
What happens in Las Vegas, it is said, stays in Las Vegas. If true, that could be good news for females…
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NY judge rules competency test for teachers racist because minorities score lower
A federal judge in New York has struck down a test used by New York City to vet potential teachers, finding…
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5 more curious facts about the mattress girl sex tape
Reporting by The Columbia Spectator has revealed even more bizarre details about Emma Sulkowicz’s newly released pornographic film. While the paper wasn’t able…
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