A Painesville, Ohio father, fed up with the Common Core standards’ method of teaching math to students, decided to get even, writing a check to the school using the x and o system of Common core, rendering the check inexplicable to the bank.
On Sunday morning, public school teachers, panicked and angry over billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad’s ambitious plans to expand charter schools, picketed the opening of his new art museum.
Donald Trump won a key legal battle last week when a federal district court in California partially decertified a class action lawsuit against Trump and the now-defunct Trump University, which once offered real estate classes.
Briefs continue to be filed in support of Abigal Noel Fisher, the woman who has been fighting against racial preferences in college admissions at the University of Texas at Austin since she first filed suit in 2008. The U.S. Supreme
SLATE: “The joke about Harvard is that it’s a hedge fund with a university attached to it,” Mark Schneider tells me. It’s a quip that, for obvious reasons, has become pretty popular in recent years.
In the face of criticism over how his department handled the call to investigate 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed’s “homemade clock,” Irving, Texas, police Chief Larry Boyd insisted on Friday that they handled the situation professionally, quickly, and properly.
Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas-Fort Worth director Alia Salem said that is Ahmed Mohamed’s name was “Jimmy,” school district officials in Irving, Texas, would not have jumped to the conclusion that his clock project was a bomb hoax.
For decades, academia has been stereotyped as a bastion of left-wing dogma. That may be about to change. Hailed by Steven Pinker as “one of the most important papers in the recent history of the social sciences,” a team of leading
Almost two dozen students at Christianburg High School in Virginia served a one-day suspension on Sept. 17 for wearing clothes carrying the Confederates’ rebel flag.
In a remarkable admission, the former director of the Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program and chief of staff to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the federal government “forced” full support for adoption of the Common Core standards from each state by requiring its governor, chief state school officer, and head of the state board of education to sign off on the grant application.
A 14-year-old North Texas high school freshman says school officials overreacted when they called police after thinking his elaborate digital homemade clock invention was a hoax bomb but the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also stepped in with a little overreacting of their own, alleging the incident as Islamophobia.
Temple University physics professor Xiaoxing Xi is understandably angry with the FBI for filing espionage charges against him, without bothering to consult with duly credentialed experts to understand exactly what he had done.
A bill being considered in Congress would require universities to notify police about reports of sexual assault or else forego punishment for the accused.
President Obama criticized progressive campus culture during a speech Monday saying he is not a fan of the safe spaces/call-out culture being fashioned by his own base.
Two high school students were killed after a Houston Independent School District school bus plunged from an overpass early Tuesday morning. The bus driver and two other students have been seriously injured. All survivors have suffered injuries.
A study finds that student loan default rates among students with supportive families who earn a four-year college degree are low compared to low-income borrowers who attend schools associated with low labor market outcomes.
Monday at North High School in Des Moines, IA, President Barack Obama refused to endorse Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s education policy. When asked, “Of all the next presidential candidates that are in line, which ones have the best idea for
With Microsoft’s Surface tablets generating about $3.6 billion in revenue over the last year, Apple introduced the iPad Pro to protect their iPad franchise where sales fell to the lowest level since 2011. Although Apple’s “Pro” comes with a Surface-like detachable keyboard and stylus, its short comings may limit its popularity with the creative crowd.
A professor employed by Delta State University in Mississippi has been gunned down by an active shooter at Delta State University, a Bolivar County Deputy Coroner confirmed Monday, and the campus shooter remains at large, according to reports.
In a video made available to Breitbart News, GOP presidential contender John Kasich responds to an activist parent’s challenge about his failure to protect private student data in his state. The Ohio governor replied that he had no clue what she was talking about.
Saleh Abdullah Kamel, a Saudi banker who is now worth billions of dollars thanks to his success with Sharia-compliant financing, has donated $10 million to Yale University as part of a successful effort to build an Islamic Law Center at the Ivy League school.
In the Washington Post, Stanley Kurtz writes that the College Board, the company that administers the SAT, may be able to create a national education curriculum.
The White House just released a controversial scorecard system for the nation’s colleges, leveraging aggregated tax income data to rank colleges by how much graduates actually earn.
On Wednesday, a 13-year-old Maryland boy was arrested for stealing a kiss from a female classmate at school, police report. The boy told authorities he sneaked the kiss on a dare from other kids.
President Obama announced “my Administration is launching a new College Scorecard” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. Next week marks seven years since a financial crisis on Wall Street that would usher in some hard years for
