Jindal has heard the complaints of many parents in his state and has said that as a parent himself he could see the difficulties his own son was having with Common Core math. Ultimately, he unveiled an aggressive plan to eliminate Common Core in Louisiana, one that exposed how the state board of education and department of education can attempt to work around government rules and the state legislature in order to meet its own goals.
by Dr. Susan Berry24 Jun 2015, 8:15 AM PST0
A teacher and aide could lose their jobs over a February 26 incident involving duct tape and students in a remedial learning class that authorities are now calling a practical joke that got out of hand. Oceanside Police were
by Michelle Moons24 Jun 2015, 5:05 AM PST0
Are four-year colleges any better than community colleges? Americans don’t think so, according to a new Gallup survey that finds 66 percent of respondents rated the quality of community colleges as “excellent” or “good,” while 70 percent rated four-year colleges the same way.
by Dr. Susan Berry23 Jun 2015, 5:28 PM PST0
The vice president of content and scoring management at Pearson North America agreed to a comparison of the training for scorers of the Common Core tests to how a restaurant chain monitors its employees’ work.
by Dr. Susan Berry23 Jun 2015, 11:01 AM PST0
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) announced Monday that it has joined in filing a lawsuit against the governor of North Dakota and other officials that claims the state’s participation in one of the federally funded interstate Common Core test consortia and the implementation of the Common Core standards is unconstitutional and violates federal laws that ban federal control of public schools and curriculum.
by Dr. Susan Berry22 Jun 2015, 11:30 AM PST0
It’s been a rough first week on the trail for Jeb Bush. First, protesters — from the left and the right — greeted Bush in New Hampshire. Then, opponents of the Common Core standards protested their state’s former governor in Tampa Friday at the Hillsborough County Republican Lincoln Day dinner.
by Dr. Susan Berry19 Jun 2015, 8:58 PM PST0
The House Appropriations Committee’s draft of its fiscal year 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) funding bill “eliminates all funding for the controversial Family Planning Program, saving taxpayers nearly $300 million.” The bill would also substantially cut so-called “comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention programs,” but double funding for abstinence-centered or Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) programs.
by Dr. Susan Berry19 Jun 2015, 7:42 AM PST0
A few days after the National Championship basketball game on April 6, many of the 600+ students living in Ogg Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison noticed a new bulletin board had gone up right near the first floor elevators, replacing one about volunteering, entitled “Let’s Talk About Sex(uality),” and it got students and parents talking from the day it went up until move out day.
by Kelly Ward17 Jun 2015, 11:56 AM PST0
A white Sacramento high school English teacher is refusing to teach Shakespeare to her minority students because she does not believe American teenagers should be subjected to reading classic literary works by a dead white man.
by Adelle Nazarian17 Jun 2015, 11:27 AM PST0
A school fair has been cancelled on the French island of Corsica after parents reportedly threatened teachers who planned to have their pupils sing John Lennon‘s ‘Imagine’ in Arabic. Lennon’s anthem to peace, contains some of the most famous lyrics of all time: “Imagine there’s
by Sarkis Zeronian17 Jun 2015, 8:40 AM PST0
Parents from the north of Italy have organized a massive demonstration against gender ideology in schools called “Defend Our Children,” to be held this Saturday in the Saint John Lateran Square in Rome. The demonstrators will be protesting Italian educational programs that are meant to blur the sexual identity of children.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Jun 2015, 5:01 AM PST0
Some British state (government funded) schools are deliberately under-recording the instances of bad behaviour by students and even removing truculent pupils during government inspections, all to gain good ratings. The revelation has been made by the government’s ‘classroom Tsar’ Tom Bennett,
by Oliver Lane17 Jun 2015, 4:45 AM PST0
“[I]f graders around the country complain publicly that the new tests are not being handled fairly or competently,” Education Columnist Jay Mathews warns, “the debate will become more serious, and one of America’s most ambitious school reforms will be in jeopardy.”
by Dr. Susan Berry16 Jun 2015, 11:26 AM PST0
Speaking to students in the United Kingdom, First Lady Michelle Obama highlighted her struggles growing up in the South Side of Chicago.
by Charlie Spiering16 Jun 2015, 5:05 AM PST0
A newly-published report says that some parenting choices and attitudes can hurt the success of black students in school.
by John Sexton15 Jun 2015, 12:45 PM PST0
This week, a courageous civil rights champion by the name of Rachel Dolezal bravely revealed her true identity to the world: she is a black woman trapped in the body of a honky and has been tanning and getting weaves for the last ten years whilst president of her local NAACP chapter in order to live life as her authentic self and shake off her “crackersona.”
by Milo Yiannopoulos13 Jun 2015, 3:18 PM PST0
Republican leaders seem poised to resume attempts to convince the conservative base of their party that the bill will reduce federal involvement in education and return it to the states and localities.
by Dr. Susan Berry13 Jun 2015, 6:14 AM PST0
Stanford University President John Hennessy just announced that he will resign next year after a 15 year run, shortly after the Stanford Business School was rated number one on the planet. By conversations on the web, Stanford is by far the most mentioned university, because most of the captains of Internet industry are its graduates.
by Chriss W. Street13 Jun 2015, 6:00 AM PST0
A high school honors assignment art display that was supposed to provide a reflection on the meaning of “social justice” ended up furthering students’ indoctrination in the “#BlackLivesMatter” movement.
by Dr. Susan Berry12 Jun 2015, 2:48 PM PST0
In the midst of a heated lawsuit alleging Harvard holds Asian students to a much higher standard during its admissions process, some college admissions counselors in California and elsewhere are coaching Asian American students to appear “less Asian” in an attempt to help them be accepted into the nation’s most elite schools.
by Adelle Nazarian11 Jun 2015, 12:50 PM PST0
At the end of last month the NUS hosted its Black Students’ Conference, which was much ridiculed by the right on Twitter for its hatred of white people that frankly made the dislike of men on show at the NUS
by Virginia Hale11 Jun 2015, 7:03 AM PST0
A gay student from San Diego State University wrote an open letter to Jerry Seinfeld, complaining that modern college audiences want humor that has a “context that spurs social dialogue” and which isn’t based on “archaic ideals.”
by John Sexton10 Jun 2015, 5:56 PM PST0
A recent article in The Economist reminds readers of the sobering reality that men are the primary victims of violence in the world and their situation is getting worse, not better.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.10 Jun 2015, 5:45 AM PST0
A study being called the “most authoritative” review of the impact of the PBS series Sesame Street on children is scheduled to be released this month. In part, the report finds that the decades-old show is just as effective as preschool for educating little ones.
by Warner Todd Huston9 Jun 2015, 7:32 AM PST0
A Las Vegas strip club has posted ads for young high school women graduates from the “class of 2015” to audition to become strippers to pay college tuition.
by Dr. Susan Berry9 Jun 2015, 6:30 AM PST0
