Education
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Parents of third-graders upset by teacher’s ‘pay to pee’ rule
An elementary school teacher in Vancouver, Wash., is in hot water after parents learned she was “selling” visits to the…
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Over 1 million kids have stopped eating Michelle Obama’s healthy lunch
Let’s Move … right past the lunch line and straight to the vending machines! Implementation of the federal guidelines for…
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Punishment before trial: Education Department attacks due process rights at Tufts University
Imagine if you could be expelled from your dorm, or prevented from attending a class, just because someone accused you…
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School that canceled honors night to avoid hurt feelings does a 180 after being ridiculed
A Rhode Island middle school that canceled its traditional honors night out of concerns that rewarding scholarship “excludes” non-scholars has…
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Feds’ school-discipline meddling will backfire and increase ‘zero-tolerance’ excesses
In a speech Saturday, Attorney General Holder made a very ironic claim: He blamed racial disparities in school discipline on “zero-tolerance”…
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‘Trigger warnings’: What are they and why do colleges want them?
Warning: This literary work is rated R for strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use, and violence throughout. Which work?…
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Attorney General Eric Holder’s dishonest attack on Chief Justice Roberts
In a speech this weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder, who earlier claimed that Americans are a “nation of cowards” on…
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10-year-old raped by 8-year-old in school bathroom
Our kids may be failing in their subjects at school, but a grisly report out of Oklahoma City suggests they…
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HS student captured on video shoving elderly teacher to ground
For all the stories of teacher ineptitude reported in this space, none of it justifies the behavior of the 16-year-old…
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First lady denounces segregation, while Obama administration promotes it
On the 60-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, first lady Michelle…
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Bibles no, trashy clothing si: A glimpse of public schools today
The culture of downward aspirations just won a small victory in its ongoing battle with decency and professionalism. In Broward…
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9/11 museum refuses to rewrite history by removing references to Islam
The new 9/11 Museum in New York City is set to open officially today. For the first week following the…
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HBO’s John Oliver: Who gives sh*t if 42% don’t believe climate change is fact?
The sentiment could have come from the mouth of Barack Obama, who in his more unhinged moments thinks he has…
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School superintendent profiled by NYT for racial ‘vision’ sued for using racial slurs
A federal lawsuit has been brought by several educators in the Greenburgh (N.Y.) Central School District, in Westchester County, alleging that Superintendent Ronald…
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College administrators adamant about stamping out campus racism, but ignore anti-Semitism
Why do college administrations fight racism even going to the extent of filing criminal charges but turn their backs entirely…
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Teacher allegedly instructs one 2nd-grader to punch a peer in the face
Last month, it was a teacher who ordered six students to beat up a classmate who was a thorn in her side.…
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Massive marriage penalties in student financial aid programs
At Minding the Campus, Jared Meyer of the Manhattan Institute describes the massive marriage penalties in student financial aid programs,…
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Muslim school superintendent defends Common Core-linked assignment questioning Holocaust *UPDATE*
“All right, class. Today, we are going to test your ability to think critically. I want you write a paper…
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Hamas children’s show: ‘Punch,’ ‘smash’ and ‘shoot’ Jews to ‘liberate Palestine’
As reported Monday at the Brenner Brief, it seems that the offensive show “Tomorrow’s Pioneers,” a children’s television program of…
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YouTube pulls video of black teens assaulting white student on school bus
The incident, in and of itself, is disturbing: Last week, a group of black teens ganged up on a white…
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‘Fed up’ students write legislation to address teachers having sex with students
The “Stop Harassing Underage Teens Act” passed the Florida Senate Wednesday, as reported at TCPalm. The legislation reclassifies penalties for sex offenses…
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White House attacks cross-examination, due process rights on campus in ‘guidance’ on sexual assault
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once noted that “the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal,…
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Cardiac fundraiser scratched; deemed racist, exploitive by one person
What was initially planned as a joint fraternity/sorority charity event at one of the nation’s leading colleges has since been…
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Taxpayers and equality win: The Supreme Court upholds Michigan’s Proposal 2
Taxpayers of all races pay more when state contracts are doled out based on race, rather than awarded to the…
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School bus driver orders eighth-grader having seizure off bus
How much training is required for a job driving a school bus? Judging from an incident that occurred in Broward…
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Zantac alert: What they’ll be passing off as education in the Chicago public schools
Chicago public schools are set to introduce a new Afrocentric curriculum, according to a closely guarded copy obtained by The…
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University president asks, ‘How do we make sure campus is less white in future’
Here’s an “upbeat story” for anyone vexed by the report by LU staff of a racist teacher who was fired because he…
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