During his commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday, presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush blistered the Obama administration for its “use of coercive federal power” to restrict religious freedom.
In an internal memo dated April 29, 2015, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced the California Department of Education (CDE) was dropping the “Common Core” name, but keeping the Common Core system.
The Internal Revenue Service erroneously provided billions of dollars in educations tax credits to ineligible students, according to a new government watchdog report.
Malala Yousafzai was just 15 years old when a gang of thugs boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. Her “crime” involved crusading for the education of young girls living under Taliban oppression. After a trial shrouded in secrecy, it appears that a Pakistani court has dealt life sentences against ten men involved in the attack.
Of the 23 million children under the age of six in the U.S., one in four have immigrant parents according to a new Migration Policy Institute report.
During oral arguments before the Supreme Court on whether same-sex marriage should be a “right,” the Obama administration admitted that religious schools teaching marriage as the union of one man and one woman could lose their tax-exempt status as a
A school in northeast France received criticism after the principal sent home a 15-year-old Muslim girl named Sarah for wearing a long black skirt, which the principal believed was a violation of the nation’s secular dress code for schools.
There are two new alleged cases of Texas teachers taken into custody for sexual misconduct in the classroom. One, a male elementary school teacher in the Houston area, was charged with indecency after upskirting an eight-year-old girl with his iPhone. The other, a female Dallas high school teacher, was arrested for an improper relationship with a male student.
The Egyptian government made a move to eliminate a few prominent Muslims in history from the educational curriculum in an attempt to stop radical Islam. The education ministry believes these heroes could encourage young children to join jihad.
Aymenn Al-Tamimi, a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel, reports that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has established a bureaucracy to grant birth certificates and medical care to its residents.
AONE, Japan — In the historic wooden schoolhouse here, decked out in the kind of bright artwork done by kids the world over, there are two classrooms, each containing three desks that sit marooned in the middle of a space made for many more. At break time, a boy kicks a soccer ball around the yard by himself.
PBS’ Sesame Street has lent one of its most popular characters to the Department of U.S. Health and Human Services to urge parents to vaccinate their children.
On April 9, Michael Bloomberg delcared his friend Jeb Bush the best GOP candidate for president.
After backlash following a report by KHOU 11 News on a Texas high school teacher calling Islam an “ideology of war,” students worry the teacher has resigned.
During CPAC, Spyridon Mitsotakis of Breitbart News caught up with Katie Kieffer, author of “Let Me Be Clear.” The title turns Barack Obama’s famous catchphrase against him.
It is becoming increasingly clearer that the main groups oppressing parents, local school boards, and local teacher unions with Common Core-based standards and tests (regardless of what they are actually called) are state boards of education and state departments of education.
Officials in a Missouri school are under fire for telling a seven-year-old girl who weighs a slight 54 pounds that her body mass index (BMI) was too high, the girl’s mother said Wednesday.
A student at Sheehan High School raised fears of contaminated food after posting photos to social media of a worm found in a fruit cup served in the school cafeteria.
Teacher-student sexual misconduct cases are on the rise nationwide. It is a disturbing trend that is higher than ever and, in Texas public schools, it has increased by 41 percent in less than six months.
Turkish education officials are pulling a textbook from grade schools featuring a children’s story in which hyenas dismiss the idea of women being freely able to choose their own careers for fear that they will “not even want to start a family.”
A female Quran teacher is on the hot seat after she told some female students at a middle school they “deserve rape” when they attended class without a headscarf.
The children’s book series ‘Peter and Jane’ is back, but with the addition of all the things any modern family needs: life jackets, seats belts and gender equality. The updates come despite the books still being set in the 1960s
President Obama has ordered the Department of Education and its network of federal agencies to determine whether or not to allow student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy proceedings.
Lubbock Christian School (LCS) Superintendent Peter Dahlstrom has been named the 2015 recipient of the Vaughn Luster Award, as the outstanding administrator of a member school of the National Christian School Association (NCSA). LCS is the oldest private school in the greater Lubbock area.
The Scottish National Party is threatening to undermine the independence of Scotland’s universities, according to a group led by the University of St Andrews. The universities claim their academic independence it under threat because the SNP wants to “bring politicians
