
More than 100 Missouri Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to top officials of the University of Missouri system calling for the firing of a professor and a staff member who called for “muscle” to threaten a student journalist covering a campus protest in November.
by Dr. Susan Berry7 Jan 2016, 11:14 AM PST0

After the University of Missouri at Columbia was thrust into the national spotlight by a series of protests by black students that were vigorously supported by a number of faculty members, new enrollment figures have “decreased noticeably.”
by Lee Stranahan6 Jan 2016, 9:59 PM PST0

The state of Georgia does not offer in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants and largely prevents them from gaining admission to the state’s best public universities, but one organization is touting it’s work-around effort.
The organization, “Freedom University” Georgia, calls itself a “modern-day freedom school” that offers “college level classes,” college application assistance, and scholarship help for illegal immigrants in Georgia.
by Caroline May6 Jan 2016, 3:24 PM PST0

One of the lead writers of the Common Core math standards is advising parents to avoid teaching their children how to do math problems, focusing instead on just making sure the assignments get done.
by Dr. Susan Berry6 Jan 2016, 8:16 AM PST0

The Ted Cruz presidential campaign has launched its “Homeschoolers for Cruz” coalition during an event in Winterset, Iowa, on Monday.
by Dr. Susan Berry5 Jan 2016, 10:17 PM PST0

Kenya’s Garissa University officially re-opened on Monday, nine months after al-Shabaab terrorists stormed the campus, killing 148 people and deliberately targeting Christian students.
by Frances Martel5 Jan 2016, 7:30 PM PST0

A Christian college in the western suburbs of Chicago has begun the process of firing a professor who recently caused controversy for claiming that Christians and Muslims pray to the same God.
by Warner Todd Huston5 Jan 2016, 5:30 PM PST0

A “Dear Colleague” guidance letter, signed by former U.S. Education Department (USED) Secretary Arne Duncan and Acting Secretary John King, warns school leaders against “targeting of particular students for harassment or blame,” particularly Muslim and Syrian refugee students.
by Dr. Susan Berry4 Jan 2016, 8:44 PM PST0

Sunday, on New York’s AM 970 “The Cats Roundtable,” Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz ripped the culture of college campuses today in America. He called college students “humorless” over safe spaces, political correctness and the war against free speech. [Relevant portion begins at the 7:12 mark] “They
by Trent Baker3 Jan 2016, 9:48 PM PST0

Policy expert Betsy McCaughey says the overwhelming academic success of Asian-American students has stoked the outrage of school officials and non-Asian parents across the nation.
by Dr. Susan Berry1 Jan 2016, 8:21 PM PST0

Arne Duncan gave his final speech as education secretary on December 30, expressing his “frustration” that Congress has not passed more gun control and his hope that more such control will be secured to keep school children safe.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 12:55 PM PST0

A New Jersey student distributed a petition to her local board of education requesting the school district recognize two major Muslim holidays with school closures.
by Dr. Susan Berry1 Jan 2016, 11:30 AM PST0

The Associated Press aptly defined Republican 2016 contender Gov. Chris Christie’s position on Common Core as “shifting,” a description that could easily be applied to many Republican governors who signed their states on to the standards only to be met by irate parents and teachers once it was discovered what Common Core was all about.
by Dr. Susan Berry31 Dec 2015, 5:33 PM PST0

The former assistant Secretary for Communications to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan writes that Sen. Lamar Alexander’s enthusiasm for his “bipartisan” education bill – one that supposedly prohibits the federal government from mandating the Common Core standards – is “shamefully misleading.”
by Dr. Susan Berry29 Dec 2015, 6:20 AM PST0

Led by an activist, left-wing teacher, high school students at Chicago’s Roosevelt public high school recently engaged in a boycott aimed at changing the way school lunches are made and delivered to kids in the Chicago public school system.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Dec 2015, 5:13 PM PST0

On January 1, California residents will have to accustom themselves to a number of new laws that will be implemented in the state. Here are some the laws that will likely have the most profound effect:
by William Bigelow27 Dec 2015, 12:51 PM PST0

Salon.com seems unable to understand just why so many Westerners have fears about the nature of Islam.
by Ben Shapiro27 Dec 2015, 11:52 AM PST0

Common Core was produced in 2010 and before the end of that year most of the states adopted it, some sight unseen. Some states, like Kentucky, started implementing Common Core right away, while in other states the implementation was slower and took off a year or two later. By 2012-13 almost all Common Core states were deeply engaged in its implementation.
by Ze’ev Wurman25 Dec 2015, 12:05 PM PST0

A report finds the overall number of children in the United States diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) jumped 43 percent between 2003 and 2011.
by Dr. Susan Berry25 Dec 2015, 9:09 AM PST0

#Rhodesmustrise Who will join my campaign #Rhodesmustrise? The idea is to build in the middle of Africa a gigantic golden statue of the mighty British imperial hero Cecil Rhodes – a really big one, about four miles high, so that Kilimanjaro doesn’t
by James Delingpole23 Dec 2015, 5:27 AM PST0

University of San Diego “Islamic faith” professor Bahar Davary used yellow badges like Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust to protest “Islamophobia,” triggering outrage.
by Michelle Moons23 Dec 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that nearly all of the increases in college tuition since 1987 can be explained by the increase in student loans made more available by government policy.
by John Sexton22 Dec 2015, 7:01 PM PST0

Inez Feltscher, the Director of the Education and Workforce Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), talks about school choice and the omnibus bill.
by Dan Riehl21 Dec 2015, 8:56 AM PST0

A Texas middle school-aged boy was arrested on Friday, Dec. 11 for allegedly threatening to blow up his suburban Dallas public school in Arlington. The incident is now bubbling up with conflicting stories, a comparison to “Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed, and no mention of school zero tolerance policies behind these situations.
by Merrill Hope21 Dec 2015, 7:39 AM PST0

Two high schools in Nashua, New Hampshire have been closed after a terroristic threat and the FBI is investigating.
by Breitbart News21 Dec 2015, 7:29 AM PST0