Education
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U. of California, Berkeley, to host taxpayer-funded lecture on the ‘queering of agriculture’
“Why queer agriculture? This seems like an odd question but becomes more obvious with research and analysis.” So begins the description…
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Atheist assault on pledge of allegiance silenced by high school girl
Freedom of, not from, religion.
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Columbia: Attend rape workshops, or you don’t get a diploma
Columbia University may be compelling students in the next month to complete a sexual assault education program or else lose the ability…
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Congress should reject Obama’s proposed budget increase for the Office for Civil Rights
The Obama administration perversely rewards agencies that overstep their authority by giving them bigger budgets to handle the increased workload…
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What’s wrong with Charles Blow’s proposal for ‘desegregating’ jobs in science? A better question is what isn’t?
New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s latest oeuvre begins with a confession: “Let me say up front: I’m not a science guy.”…
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Vanderbilt U. follows campus rape convictions with workshop titled ‘Want to be Brilliant in Bed?’
Last week, the Tennessean reports, two former Vanderbilt University football players were convicted on multiple counts of sexual assault. “[B]ut…
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American history lesson ponders: ‘What if they called my Jeep a Jeep Jew?’
“America is freedom, I’ve been told – But I know that it was also born of blood and gold.” – Flocabulary…
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College course has students inventing new porn genre? (Video)
A bizarre new course offered at prestigious Carnegie Mellon University is challenging students to “resist” the Internet by crafting viral…
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School forces students to drop pants in quest to ID phantom pooper (Video)
In a town the size of Gustine, Texas (pop: 457), nothing stay secret for long. Not even the identity of…
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The audacity of … what? Obama pushing taxes he fought against in Senate and in his book
Part of President Barack Obama’s ambitious tax reform plan is a proposal to gut the popular 529 savings accounts used…
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Misleading NPR report leads to costly, illegal Education Department rules on sexual harassment
Bad things can happen when an agency (like the Education Department) throws caution to the wind and imposes rules based on misleading…
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Arizona State University now offering course on ‘problem of whiteness’ (Video)
The full title of the course, being offered by the English department, is “U.S. Race Theory and the Problem of…
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Teacher tearfully opts out of Common Core testing, calls it ‘cruel and harmful’ (Video)
A sixth-grade English teacher at Ichabod Crane Middle School in upstate New York broke down in tears in front of…
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Mistaken hug by disabled student leads to suspension for ‘sexual assault’
Campus hysteria about sexual assault may have claimed another victim, judging from a news report by NBC 5 in Dallas:…
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Oxford U. Press warns that writing about bacon could offend Muslims … and Jews
The world’s largest university press has told its authors to refrain from using the word pork, pig, or “anything else…
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Catch-22: Could reforming No Child Left Behind actually save Common Core?
Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander’s new draft bill to reform No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is set to scale back the…
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Muslim call to prayer begins this week at Duke University
Duke University officials confirmed that beginning Friday, a Muslim call to prayer will be sounded throughout its campus, and will…
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Pelosi gives House Intelligence Committee its first Muslim member (Video)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appointed the first Muslim member to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Tuesday,…
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Tom Hanks op-ed on why Obama’s free community college push is such a snazzy idea
In Somerset Maugham’s parable “The Verger,” a man fired from his low-paying church job because he is illiterate opens a chain of…
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Anti-gun group will teach journalists how to report on gun violence
An anti-gun group, backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is funding a workshop that purports to teach…
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School board requires home schoolers to justify religious beliefs (Video)
A Virginia county school board has implemented a policy requiring students age 14 and above who request to be home-schooled…
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Obama’s free community college gambit flunks first Republican test
President Obama’s ambitious plan to provide two years of free community college to all Americans may be dead on arrival, as…
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Obama’s free community college gambit is a plan to subsidize failure
Critics are charging that President Barack Obama’s proposal to publicly fund community college tuition would amount to a lavish subsidy…
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South Carolina considers mandatory gun education at school
A pair of bills filed in each house of South Carolina’s legislature aim to eliminate the zero-tolerance attitude toward guns…
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Virginia AG: ‘Si’ to free in-state tuition for illegals, mum on amnesty battle
Virginia is sitting out the legal fight over President Obama’s controversial amnesty order, even though illegal immigration costs Virginians more…
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Education Department says Harvard violated Title IX by failing to parrot bureaucrats
Can a federal agency find you in violation of the law, not for actions that violate a statute, but for…
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Libs attack W. Va. school board for standards questioning manmade global warming
West Virginia School Board member Wade Linger didn’t want to cause controversy, but that’s what he got when he worked…
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Karma strikes Harvard faculty when they see premiums rise under Obamacare
Faculty members at Harvard are in an uproar over their escalating health insurance costs — all because of the Affordable…
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Schools in San Francisco to offer ‘black lives matter’ resource guide for classrooms
Students in public high schools in San Francisco are already offered ethnic studies courses. But that’s no longer enough in a nation where…
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Free speech advisory: Student receives death threats for reporting anti-cop tweets
When Khadijah Lynch, a coed at Brandeis University, tweeted her lack of sympathy for the two NYPD officers shot to death by a…
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Indiana bill would require students to pass immigrants’ civics test to receive diploma (Video)
A proposal to require high school students to pass, as a condition of graduation, the civics test taken by immigrants…
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Top New York education officials propose big shake-ups
New York’s leading education officials are encouraging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make radical changes to education in the state that…
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These will be the five biggest education issues of 2015
In 2014, teachers were upset about excessive standardized tests, women were upset about campus sexual assault, kids were upset about…
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HarperCollins deletes Israel from its school maps, atlases
In a move that can only be described as extreme arrogance, HarperCollins, as well as its cartography division, Collins Bartholomew,…
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Harvard Law School bends to will of Obama administration on sexual assaults
Harvard Law School finally threw in the towel Tuesday after a four-year fight with the Obama administration over Title IX. The…
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