First Lady Michelle Obama is out with her first Spotify playlist, featuring female artists in celebration of the “International Day of the Girl.” The songs feature some questionable lyrics.
Unexpectedly, the Associated Press (AP) named zero tolerance policies, not Islamophobia, as the reason for Texas teen Ahmed Mohamed’s recent clock-making woes, which echoes exactly what Breitbart Texas first reported in mid-September.
Wesleyan University students destroyed the print edition of their student newspaper last month after it published an op-ed critical of Black Lives Matter. Now the student government is picking up where the protesters left off. Sunday, the student assembly voted for a resolution that would slash the funding used to publish the paper’s twice-weekly print edition.
An award winning Tennessee educator with years of experience teaching seventh grade Social Studies tells Breitbart News it’s time to get rid of the Islam-centric standards adopted by the Tennessee Department of Education in 2014.
A viral video on Facebook shows a high school football team interfering with its opponent’s high school marching band as it started to play the national anthem.
A cell phone camera captured an incident in a Texas high school that brings a whole new meaning to “choking” zero tolerance policies–a high school campus police officer with his hands wrapped around a 14-year-old male student’s throat. The teen’s dad wants the officer reprimanded.
UK schools will appoint ‘gender champions’ tasked with monitoring the language of schoolchildren as young as five in order to stamp out sexist terms such as “sissy”, “cupcake” and to challenge stereotypes. Under new guidelines to be published tomorrow, senior teachers will be named
An female student at the University of California San Diego has blown the whistle on a fraternity member’s salacious Facebook request for “rush boobs”–for her to expose her breasts in a photo for rush week.
A suspect in the gang-related shooting death of a student near the campus of Texas Southern University has been arrested and charged with his murder. Following the fourth shooting in recent months, the university has taken additional security precautions to prevent further violence.
With all the focus on campus “rape culture,” those accused of sexual assault (read: men) often find themselves facing a byzantine, parallel system of justice in which standards of evidence and proof are dubious and the process seems stacked against them from the outset. Increasingly, these cases are being taken to real courts where the accused men are winning back the rights which were not protected by their universities.
A Breitbart News investigation reveals that the current seventh grade Social Studies standards, developed in 2013 by a group of ten Tennessee educators led by 30-year-old Jared Myracle (author of Common Core for Parents for Dummies), and adopted by the State of Tennessee for public schools for the 2014-2015 academic year, do, in fact, promote Islam and downplay Christianity. This assessment is based upon a review of the 75 learning objectives specified in the standards.
Yesterday, George Lawlor, a student at the University of Warwick hit the headlines after he refused to accept an invitation to his student union’s “Sex Consent training workship.” Today, he is joined in these pages by another Warwick student, Jack Hadfield. Here’s hoping that their voices are just the beginning–and that young men will stand up and say enough is enough.
Controversy erupted over the U.S. Air Force dad who questioned a North Texas school district’s dress code. Nasty Facebook posts, a protest to defend the school district’s patriotic honor, and pronouncements of police protection dispatched district-wide for alleged death threats all came because an Iraq war veteran questioned something in the policy.
I am not a rapist. But I’m in my second week as a university student, and already modern feminism and “consent culture” is trying to pin that label on me.
A national coalition of parents is releasing a letter to House and Senate education committee leaders urging them to suspend their talks on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) federal law until a new administration is elected.
Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, father of ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed, shared another 9/11 ‘Truther’ Facebook post, only this time in Arabic, claiming that the clock incident will lead to spreading Islam in America.
On Tuesday, a few students at a Maryland high school were instructed to remove clothing that featured the Confederate flag, as the administration claimed the insignia would be “disruptive” to the students.
More than 50 professors from the University of Texas at Austin have signed a letter protesting campus carry on the campus. Breitbart Texas reported on October 8th that an economics professor emeritus from the University of Texas in Austin resigned expressing in his resignation letter, a fear that law abiding students with concealed handguns might shoot him.
Apple Inc.’s near-billion-dollar loss Tuesday for violating a University of Wisconsin patent from 1998 that improves processor performance in all of its iPhone and iPad products will encourage more universities to sue tech companies.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have mandated the creation of a uniform ethnic studies course for public schools in California.
Twin sisters at a North Texas middle school got the surprise of their young lives when they stumbled into trouble for wearing front-zip hoodies with patriotic U.S. Air Force logos. District officials said that the oversized emblems violated the school’s dress-code policy.
Politico has issued a notice to GOP 2016 contenders: “Common Core has won the war.”
This might restore a little of your hope for America’s future: In an exclusive conversation with Breitbart News, three students from Umpqua Community College show more common sense about guns and safety on college campuses than mainstream Democratic politicians.
Last week, a former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO was indicted on charges that she took bribes while steering up to $23 million in no-bid contracts to a consulting firm she once worked for, and some wonder if Emanuel’s office had a hand in that scandal. But the mayor’s office is blocking the release of records that could shed light on that relationship.
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Friday that would have set a timetable for providing state subsidies for all low-income four-year-olds.
