Education
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College president accused of pushing fake sexual harassment claims
The president of Chicago State University pressured a high-level administrator at the school to file a bogus sexual harassment claim…
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Teacher testifies that special needs child intentionally hurt himself over Common Core (Video)
A press conference was held earlier this week regarding the Common Core Parental Refusal Act, legislation that would require schools in New…
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Federal education regulations deprive students of justice and due process
Last week, I participated in a March 13 panel discussion at the National Press Club titled “Bringing an End to…
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College student barred from class for daring to dispute rape statistics
A student at Reed College has been banned from class for denying the existence of “rape culture” in the United…
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Civil Rights Commissioners oppose budget hike for Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights
On February 26, two members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow, wrote to the…
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Tennessee teacher uncovers vast left-wing conspiracy
Speaking at an education conference Saturday, Susan Curlee, a Tennessee school board official, detailed her struggle to unravel an alleged…
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HS students harass special needs student, share video on social media (Video)
Remember the cretinous middle schoolers who in 2012 released a video of themselves taunting and at times threatening a 68-year-old…
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California is now home to America’s first accredited Islamic college
Where else but California? The city of Berkeley, no less. There, a small college has become the country’s first accredited Muslim…
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Teacher who suffers from fear of children files claim under Americans With Disabilities Act
A person with pedophobia, a fear of young children, suing the school that employed her is akin to a child who murders his…
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Obama’s new student loan ‘bill of rights’ won’t do much
President Barack Obama has announced the creation of a new student loan “bill of rights” that he says will position…
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Carrot and stick? Ky. school will reward students who eat Michelle O’s ‘healthy’ lunch with ice cream
You can lead a kid to brown rice, but you can’t make him eat. Or maybe you can if you…
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Common Core tests beset with glitches, barraged by boycotts across the country
The national rollout of new Common Core-aligned standardized tests is running into a series of embarrassing problems, as schools grapple…
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Another illegal, uncodified, unvetted Education Department rule
Recently, I wrote about a report to the Senate by a task force of college presidents, on how the Education…
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U of Texas frat’s ‘border patrol’ party gets pass from administration, students outraged
Last month the Phi Gamma Delta chapter at the University of Texas threw a party that some students are complaining crossed a line —…
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To level playing field, SATs spot blacks 230-point ‘bonus,’ penalize Asians 50 points
So this is how fairness works. An article in the Los Angeles Times, which not only buries the lede but…
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How one obscure blog post derailed the education debate in Congress
Republican efforts to replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB) were dealt an unexpected setback Friday, when a long-anticipated vote on…
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Daily Beast latest media outlet to retract fake story about Scott Walker
Did you hear the latest scuttlebutt about Wisconsin governor Scott Walker? Seems the 2016 presidential hopeful sat in the pews of a…
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Innocent man banned from being near fellow student — for resembling her rapist
Be a rapist -- or, just look like one.
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Conservatives are upset over AP History, and it’s not so simple as a lack of ‘patriotism’
A recent push by Oklahoma conservatives to possibly replace the newly-revised AP United States History (APUSH) exam has produced a great deal…
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U. of Minnesota agrees to start concealing the race of criminal suspects in campus alerts
Last January, it was reported in this space that the Black Student Union at the University of Minnesota (yes, there is a separate…
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Education Department floods schools with new rules and regulations, flouting legal limits
Recently, a task force of college presidents chronicled massive regulatory overreaching by the U.S. Department of Education, which, on a daily basis,…
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LGBT acronym not inclusive enough for Wesleyan University, which insists on LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM
…expialidocious! This is no joke, notes Jennifer Kabbany at College Fix, by which she obviously means it is not intended to…
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8th-graders taught Republicans are morally bankrupt, Dems America’s salvation
Careful readers will observe that the title of this post is editorializing, which is precisely what the teacher of an eighth-grade…
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Virginia faced with choice in education policy: Special-needs students vs. special interests
Virginia State Delegate Dave LaRock is making an impassioned plea for enactment of education savings accounts (ESAs), which face intense…
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U.C. Berkeley slammed over allegedly biased minimum wage report
A top researcher has called out University of California, Berkeley for allegedly releasing a biased research paper that served as…
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Ivy League school considers scrapping academic requirements in favor of diversity requirements
Barnard College, the all-women school affiliated with Columbia University, is considering slashing its foreign-language and science requirements while mandating that students complete…
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Rutgers to hold first ever college fair for illegal immigrants
Rutgers University, the flagship state university for New Jersey, will be hosting what appears to be the first ever college admissions fair…
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NPR ombudsman erroneously claims free speech doesn’t include hate speech
National Public Radio (NPR) receives taxpayer subsidies based on its false pretense of objectivity and accuracy. Its departing ombudsman, Edward…
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Students at South African university demand all Jews be expelled
The demand, which came from the student representative council at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa didn’t specify what…
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Rising tide of students with limited English swamps school budgets
Costs for schooling a surging number of limited English proficiency (LEP) students are soaring — $2.5 billion in the Washington, D.C.,…
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Women’s school exempt from sexual assault education because students are ‘female’
Despite the claim by “experts” that as many as one in every six men — or 17% — have “experienced unwanted…
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Bobby Jindal unveils national plan to repeal Common Core
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has unveiled a 42-page proposal to reform American education at the national level, one of the clearest signs…
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