Education
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UC San Diego debuts its ‘undocumented student services center’
At the rate the University of California at San Diego is popping up in news stories, the school is going…
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While school districts fail, NJ rates 97% of its teachers ‘effective’
What’s wrong with this statistic? A 50-page report released on Monday by New Jersey’s Department of Education rates over 97% of the…
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Cruz: No federal money for schools that boycott Israel
Presidential candidate Republican Sen. Ted Cruz Thursday called for federal money to be withdrawn from any college that boycotts Israel.…
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College prof publishes ‘Ten Cracka Commandments’ for whites in preparation for ‘black spring’
Where’s Cecil B. DeMille when you need him? Oh wait, he was white so we don’t need him. Besides, the…
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Former Lt. Gov. of New York: Democrats trying to criminalize normal sexual behavior
Betsy McCaughey, former Lieutenant Governor of New York and current senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, is warning…
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City of Los Angeles will spend over $70 million implementing ‘ethnic studies’ in schools
Los Angeles plans to implement a district-wide ethnic studies curriculum, but it has run into a massive $70 million roadblock. Last fall,…
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One school’s bold new old solution to racism: Segregation
A cover story in New York magazine asks the question “Can racism be stopped in the third grade?” A better question…
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UC San Diego coeds stage topless ‘Free the Nipple’ rally (Video)
According to the calendar, protesters at the University of California San Diego are either two months late or ten months…
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More trade secret theft: Temple U. prof funnels superconductivity device to China
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged the chair of Temple University’s physics department with four counts of wire fraud…
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Columbia U. mattress girl carries her mattress on-stage at graduation (Video)
Never mind that her story of having been raped on campus by a male undergraduate has been widely debunked. Never…
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College ‘diversity officer’ may lose job for #KillAllWhiteMen tweets
Apparently there is a bridge too far, and Bahar Mustafa may have finally crossed it. A student at Goldsmiths, University of London, where…
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The word of the day is ‘microaggression’
The word “microaggression” has cropped up with increased frequency over the last year, to the point that now I see…
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Democrats label lazy welfare recipients as ‘working families’
Welfare is often unpopular with the voters who fund it through their taxes. So California politicians and academics who support it…
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School system to teach there’s no such thing as 100% male or female, that sexuality is ‘fluid’
Prepare to do away with the designations “male” and “female,” as well as “other,” that clumsy catchall meant to cover everyone…
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See what happened when a HS told this senior to remove the American flag from his truck (Video)
The emblem of the land I love.
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Students at ASU: ‘Walk-Only Zones’ a microaggression on disabled people
It’s hard to say which will die out first from exhaustion — online petitions or the term “microaggression.” Both figure in a…
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In a show of sensitivity to students, U. of Texas president agrees to pay cut … down to $750K
What a guy! The new president at the University of Texas’s flagship Austin campus has rejected an offered $1 million…
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Classical mythology is the source of the latest microaggression at Columbia University
When “A Catcher in the Rye” was published in 1951, its original intended audience was adults. Even then, the novel…
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HS history teacher fired for showing PSA on homosexuality from the 1950s (Video)
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” George Santayana is often misquoted as having said. (His…
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Students at UC San Diego required to strip naked for course final (Video)
Life sometimes imitates art, but this sounds a lot like art imitating porn. ABC San Diego affiliate KGTV reports that a professor…
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Another campus rape hoax, but dots remain unconnected for some
In February of this year, PolitiFact judged Barack Obama’s most recent iteration of the claim that 1 in 5 women in…
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Elementary school grammar assignment contains gratuitously violent ‘bullet in the head’ reference
With the crusade to add gender-neutral pronouns to English underway, it is understandable that the mother of an 11-year-old might get upset over her…
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Czech schoolteacher fired after teenage students discover her porn video
Some might argue the cat was already out of the bag. Nevertheless, a 35-year-old teacher in the Czech Republic was terminated after…
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Dartmouth students demand gay, black student president resign for not being liberal enough (Video)
Students at Dartmouth College launched a petition drive demanding the newly-elected student body president resign after they say he was disrespectful…
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Rutgers student gov’t wants to diversify mascot to include black, female, ‘third gender’ flavors
If the student government at Rutgers University gets its way, the school mascot, the Scarlet Knight, will soon receive a politically…
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‘American Sniper’ will be shown at U. of Maryland after all … as a ‘teachable moment’
The University of Maryland has done an about-face on the showing of the film “American Sniper.” After announcing last week that…
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Which teachers will be the first to go as schools shrink?
Falling birth rates will cut school attendance in the coming years, but just 18 states require that competence be considered…
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White people, men banned from diversity rally at British university
How can you carry on a civilized conversation about diversity when you have all these “non-diverse” types around? That was…
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School requires children as young as 3 to sign contract promising not to use ‘transphobic language’
If I had to guess the meaning of transphobia independent of context, I would guess it means “fear of crossing.” Sample sentence: “Hiram…
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