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The University of Bristol’s Medical School has outlined measures the institution will take to “de-colonise the curriculum”. One of the UK’s top medical schools, Bristol announced it will be taking a range of actions including educating students on medicine’s ‘racist’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday kicks off eight weeks of presidential action, outlining what four more years in office will look like.

Larry Elder joined Breitbart News to discuss his recent nomination to the Radio Hall of Fame, reflecting on his nearly three decades in radio.

Schools in Philadelphia will not resume full in-person learning following months of school closures,  instead choosing a hybrid schedule that will have students receiving face-to-face instruction only two times per week.

Many countries have reopened schools safely following closures during the coronavirus pandemic, said Dr. William Schaffner, M.D., a professor of medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University and the medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

Planned Parenthood is a large dispenser of testosterone, giving the hormone to girls self-diagnosing as “transgender,” said Abigail Shrier.

Dr. William Schaffner, M.D., an infectious disease expert, forecasted that schools and universities will reopen in a “modified form.”

Former Google CEO and Clinton lackey Eric Schmidt argued recently that Chinese students provide a vital benefit to the United States’ National Security interests. The Chinese government has come under scrutiny over the past year for using Chinese researchers at American universities to steal taxpayer-funded research.

Infrastructure, education, health care, and the American way. Leave aside race, and history. Offer a better future. That’s how to win.

Hong Kong Education Secretary Kevin Yeung sent a letter to school administrators on Wednesday instructing them to crack down on pro-democracy protests in advance of the national security law Beijing will soon impose on the island. 

Andrzej Duda has vowed to “defend children from LGBT ideology” if he wins a second term at presidential elections in Poland later this month.

Ireland’s classrooms are too white and children “should learn about black history from an early age” to fight racism, according to the country’s mainstream media.

The Swedish government has been accused of removing test scores of foreign-born pupils and those with poor Swedish language skills to boost the country’s PISA educational score.

TEL AVIV – Eighty-seven schools around Israel have closed over coronavirus cases and nearly 10,000 students and staff members are in quarantine. 

Jack Rico took home four associate’s degrees from Fullerton College in California at 13 last week — and he is far from finished.

The U.S. Census Bureau has launched a weekly survey of American households during the coronavirus outbreak.

A British school has apologised after asking children as young as 11 to define “inappropriate” sexual terms including “transgender pornography”, but insisted that the homework was in line with government “equality” guidelines.

Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates stated in a recent interview that he thinks schools in the United States will be able to reopen in the fall but that the U.S. economy won’t magically return to how it was before the coronavirus pandemic.

The government of Singapore reopened its schools on Monday, bucking the global trend of countries that have been forced into closures as a result of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

The Cuban Communist Party has not planned any social isolation measures, including shutting down schools, to combat a growing number of Chinese coronavirus cases – alarming parents worried they do not even have enough water or soap to wash their hands, Cuban outlets revealed on Wednesday.

Education is a “dynamic reality” and an “ecological movement,” Pope Francis told a gathering of Catholic educators in the Vatican Thursday.

School vouchers have proven to bring about a win-win situation for education, improving both private and public school outcomes, a new study reveals.

The Constitution requires counting the number of citizens and non-citizens who live in the United States every ten years.

Americans must be told they should be grateful to immigrants, says a university executive who fears losing revenues amid the public’s strong opposition to corporate immigration.

A poll by the American Federation for Children indicates the majority of Democratic primary voters favor continuing to fund charter schools.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) vowed Tuesday to cancel the bulk of student loan debt on the first day of her presidency via executive action.

The founder of the #RedforEd movement is now promoting “next-generation” political teacher activism to academics in graduate schools of education around the country in order to further advance a socialist agenda in the United States.

TEL AVIV — The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed a “peace and tolerance” resolution on Wednesday that calls for Palestinian school textbooks to stop “encouraging war and violence, antisemitism, hate and intolerance.”

A Chinese charity program called the Spring Bud Project, nominally dedicated to providing educational opportunities for poverty-stricken girls, apologized on Wednesday after boys were found participating in one of its fundraising activities.

Wuhan University in China’s Hubei province went on a crusade against foreign students Monday, expelling an unprecedented 92 of them from ten different countries. The university, which boasts about 3,300 international students, has previously expelled one or two of them per year at most.

A #RedforEd protest against Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos fizzled in Arizona on Wednesday.

The presidents of more than 400 state and private universities have formed a quiet partnership with a top-level group of wealthy investors to help foreign graduates, even though the same alumni will take prestigious jobs from the American graduates of those institutions.

Amidst fresh accusations of antisemitism, the far-left leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said that if elected he would force schools in the United Kingdom to teach the “historical injustices” committed by the British Empire.

The #RedforEd movement shut down a number of K-12 public schools in Indiana on Tuesday as school teachers skipped class to protest at the State Capitol.

A primary school in the English seaside resort town of Brighton has banned children from playing the playground game ‘Tag’, claiming the game was “too rough”, and encouraging kids to play with “gentle hands”.

‘Rewrite part of a Disney story of your choice but without the sexist/racist aspects. Think about gender roles, character and story outcome/ending.’ This is a homework exercise set by a geography teacher for her class of 11-year-olds at a British state school.