Education
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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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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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