Education
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Islamic school cries Islamophobia: Textbook praises Muslim who ‘loved death more than life’
“Many Muslims will feel alienated and victims of state Islamaphobia…” With the Muslim population of the United Kingdom growing by…
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Obama talks about education and his own ‘misspent youth’
President Obama discussed education reform in a Tumblr broadcast Tuesday, talking up his plan for student loans debt. Obama talked…
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Picture of the Day: ‘This is they’re [sic] story’
Need evidence that there is trouble in the Windy City? The premise of that question can be borne out in many…
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Bill Gates, Common Core, and the real problem with money in politics
Dark money versus money invisible in plain sight.
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Sex education: School asks eighth graders ‘how far’ they would go sexually
As a part of a sex education class, eighth graders at Woodland Park Middle School in San Marcos, California were asked to…
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‘Evil’ Koch brothers support United Negro College Fund: Harry Reid silent
Charles and David Koch have made a big $25 million donation to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF),the organization announced Friday.…
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Teen who clocked another student after queefing during bus sex cops plea
A female teen who earned the unflattering nickname “Teen LaQueefa” after expelling wind from her vulva while having sex on a school…
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University presidents don’t want students with guns on campus … or anywhere else
University presidents overwhelmingly oppose letting students carry concealed guns on their campuses — and don’t really want people carrying them…
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Video: A Common Core-style ‘trick’ for multiplying numbers
This may or may not be Common Core-aligned, though the technique fits right in with some of the CC methods…
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Arizona ditches Common Core Testing consortium
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Friday that her state is pulling out of a multi-state consortium that is designing a…
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Charge of racism: Group demands fraternity change name, cancel ‘Islander’ fundraiser
Despite a noticeable lack of white males, accusations of white male hegemony fly… The Iota Chi chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta…
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Teacher accused of ‘intentionally’ exposing 16-year-old student to AIDS virus
Louisiana High school teacher Derrick Nesby, 37, was already in hot water for having sex with a 16-year-old student. Today,…
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‘Incendiary’ questions on Chicago standardized test pulled after complaints of political bias
Two popular liberal pastimes — claiming falsely to have been the victim of bigotry and poisoning the minds of the…
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Which unlikely commencement speaker ripped academia for liberal intolerance
I’ll give you a hint. He’s a white male. That much is clear from the accompanying photo. He considers himself…
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Students opting out of Common Core having a serious impact in New York
For those under the impression that opting out of Common Core testing couldn’t possibly have an effect on the program,…
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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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