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The University of Texas at Austin is offering a “brand new” course on Democrat activist, pro-abortion, pro-China, climate change hypocrite pop star Taylor Swift this fall semester, titled “Literary Contests and Contexts — The Taylor Swift Songbook.”

While some student loan borrowers would benefit, others who paid their loans — or chose not to go to college — would get the shaft, and inflation will continue to rise.

China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) “punished” 27 employees Monday for their roles in approving illustrations in public primary school textbooks that were deemed “ugly” and “problematic,” China’s state-run Global Times and Xinhua News Agency reported.

Florida flipped multiple major school boards from liberal to conservative Tuesday evening, continuing a nationwide trend of parents taking back control of public schools.

The Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in Texas voted Monday to ban the teaching of critical race theory and not promote, require or encourage the usage of pronouns not aligned with a student’s actual sex.

Prosecutors say a City Colleges of Chicago basketball coach forged employment records so crooks under the electronic monitoring system for pending criminal cases could travel around the city for jobs they didn’t actually have.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill) Board of Trustees passed a resolution rejecting the student government’s attempt to deny funding to pro-life organizations.

During an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” author of “The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now” and former NPR Education Correspondent Anya Kamenetz discussed school openings and closures during the

More than 20 colleges and universities across six regions in China postponed the start of their fall semesters in recent days in an effort to curb local outbreaks of the Chinese coronavirus, the Global Times reported on Sunday.

Most primary and secondary schools in the Philippines held in-person classes on Monday for the first time since March 2020 when Manila ordered learning institutions nationwide to shut down in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the Philippine Star reported.

During portions of an interview aired on Monday’s edition of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” NAACP Washington, D.C. Branch President and member of the organization’s National Board of Directors Akosua Ali expressed the organization’s strong concern about the “racial

University of Maryland (UMD) professor Dinesh Manocha, a decorated scholar in AI and robotics, created machine-learning software “useful for surveillance” that can read people’s personalities and “predict their behavior” for Chinese tech giant Alibaba.

A UC Berkeley off-campus house called “The Person of Color Theme House” reportedly bans white people from common areas in order to “avoid white violence and presence.” The alleged house rules also state that residents must alert other tenants in a group chat whenever they bring white guests to the property.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) participated in an all-out school board campaign blitz on Sunday, days ahead of the primary election, to support conservative school board candidates who support the “Students First, Protecting Parents’ Rights” education blueprint.

Students in Britain’s oldest specialised drama school were told to secretly report teachers who commit ‘microaggressions’ by scanning QR codes put up in their classrooms.

Elementary schools and universities have been preparing for potential monkeypox outbreaks as the summer closes.

An overwhelming majority of college Democrats do not want to see President Joe Biden run for reelection in 2024, according to a recent survey conducted by NBC News and Generation Lab.

North Dakota’s Fargo School Board reinstated the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of its board meetings after one week’s worth of backlash following the Board’s decision to end the Pledge. 

The editorial board of the University of Virginia’s newspaper has called to remove references to University founder and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.

Colorado’s Thompson School District is the latest to make national waves over its policies in handling confused children, urging schools to “respectfully” accept a child’s chosen gender, regardless of a medical or mental health diagnosis.

Parents, donors, and alumni of Harpeth Hall, an all-girls school in Nashville, Tennessee, are pulling donations and calling for the resignations of several school officials who they believe have been “enablers of political activism and division.”

A male student who claims to be a female was rejected from every sorority at the University of Alabama, according to a social media posts from the student.

The world’s largest moth was spotted in Bellevue, Washington, last month resting on a resident’s garage.

Harpeth Hall, a private all-girls’ school in Nashville, Tennessee, has backed off a policy that would have allowed boys who identify as girls to attend the school after pushback from the community. 

The Keller Independent School District is under fire after pulling dozens of books from shelves for review, including the Bible.

Rutgers University plans to keep its mask and vaccine mandate in place for the fall semester, citing risks of both the Chinese coronavirus as well as monkeypox.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday explained the issues with teacher recruitment, explaining that many individuals have been “overtaken by ideology” at “certain schools of education,” which is turning a lot of people off.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday highlighted the absurdity of the medical establishment as it pushes sex changes for minors, deeming this type of ideology “very, very dangerous.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday announced a series of initiatives his administration will prioritize in the next legislative session which are designed to recruit more teachers in the Sunshine State, including specific efforts to help hometown heroes become educators.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said that there were “some places that I wanted to see their schools open quicker” but he “can’t speak for local communities and local context.” Cardona said, “[W]hen the

Houston Independent School District approved over $2 million in funding for rifles, ballistic shields, ammunition, and communication devices for school resource officers throughout the district.

Elizabeth Andersen, a left-wing school board member in Duval County, Florida, used a racial slur to describe black conservative mothers who disagree with her agenda in a video conference with activists.

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News that “the college cartel” is “no better than the Mexican drug cartel,” as it has been “spreading idea pathogens that have been infecting the inner core of our society.”

A Texas border city mayor pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges for using his position as a local school administrator to rig a contract for his benefit.

Pro-abortion Rhodes College alumni are demanding that the school remove U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett from its alumni Hall of Fame in reaction to the Justice voting to overrule Roe v. Wade earlier this summer.

A group of Rome High School football players used strength and courage to save a woman’s life recently in Georgia.