Education
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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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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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