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Students at Manchester High School in Virginia hosted a “Black Lives Matter Monday” during Spirit Week that has been the cause of much debate.

According to an African-American professor at Harvard University, providing safe spaces to minorities students does more harm than good.

Students at the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies (MLWGS) are launching a “Planned Parenthood Club,” according to a recent Facebook post.

MILO warned the University of Maryland that he was coming for them during his talk at the University of Delaware Monday night, after the college imposed a $6,500 security fee on the students organizing Milo’s event just four days before it was due to take place, forcing its cancellation.

Transgender activists at the University of Toronto disrupted a free speech rally for a professor under fire for refusing to address a student with gender neutral pronouns.

The City University of New York in Brooklyn, Northwestern University and many of the schools in the University of California system were found to be among the most hostile campuses for Jewish students, with high rates of anti-Semitic harassment and anti-Israel activity.

UC Berkeley’s Greek system has imposed a ban on all fraternity and sorority parties, following reports of two sexual assaults last week at off-campus frat functions.

Three teen girls cheered on the Trump-Pence ticket with their friends at a rally in Durango, Colorado, on Wednesday in an effort to make their voices heard. Though they cannot vote yet, they told Breitbart News that they want people to know the candidate they believe will deliver the best future.

Research on the gender pay gap from the American Enterprise Institute reveals that women overwhelmingly choose less-lucrative university majors.

A primary school teacher was beaten outside his classroom by two young men who called him a racist after seeing the man rebuke a child of non-European origin.

An Oklahoma teacher was caught on tape saying the words, “to be white is to be racist, period,” in a lecture on “how to heal the racial divide.”

Thousands of teachers across Seattle plan to wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts to school Wednesday as part of an organized effort to teach curriculum and support student activism related to closing the opportunity gap between different races, KIRO reports.

The president, who appeared with both current U.S. Secretary of Education John King and the former secretary, Arne Duncan, told students, “We live in a global economy,” and that they will be competing for jobs with people not only from the United States, but also from “India and China.”

A Texas elementary school instructor accused of roughing up a five-year-old in a purported disciplinary incident captured on video has resigned.

The Cardinal Newman Society says its Catholic Curriculum Standards seek to serve as a “valuable new resource encouraging greater emphasis on what makes Catholic education special while moving beyond reliance on the controversial Common Core State Standards.”

In a new set of education rules, the Chinese Communist Party is urging citizens to spy on their neighbors and report parents who raise their children in a religious faith or have them attend religious services.

“We’ve contacted the Tacoma Public Schools District via email and letter announcing our intentions to start an After School Satan Club at Point Defiance Elementary, and have requested their Facility Use application so we may follow the correct procedures in applying,” says the Satanic Temple’s website.

Two teachers served with lifetime bands for plotting to illegally Islamise a school in Birmingham have been allowed back into schools because of a technical irregularity and alleged “unfairness”.

Leftist students at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles called for the removal of a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus, which they claim implicates the university in a “celebration of genocide.”

An editorial in USA Today argues that increasingly spineless university administrators, rather than self-righteous students, are to blame for tension and censorship on college campuses.

After launching a campaign to end anti-free speech policies on his campus, a sophomore at Tufts University was attacked and maligned on social media by several enraged students.

YouTube have placed some of the videos of the conservative PragerU channel on “restricted mode,” designed to stop children from viewing inappropriate adult content.

The K-12 Common Core’s focus on workforce development is at odds with the mission of Catholic schools and should be abandoned by their dioceses, says the study.

Three students who claim to be transgender have banded together to sue their Pittsburgh-area school district over a recent resolution affirming that children should only use bathrooms that correspond to their biological gender.

Students at the University of Alabama are complaining that fans of MILO make them “fear for their safety,” and have demanded that the university rescind security funding for the event.

According to a recent report, there are eleven academic departments at Cornell University with zero registered Republican professors.

A University of Virginia professor has taken a leave of absence from the school after his comments comparing Black Lives Matter to the Klu Klux Klan came under fire.

WikiLeaks emails revealing remarks from a paid speech Hillary Clinton gave in July of 2014 show the now-Democrat presidential nominee referring to the Common Core standards as simply a “political failure” by a “bipartisan group of governors” who neglected to have a plan for “explaining it and selling it to people.”

A Mississippi teacher has been caught on camera hitting a special needs student and dragging her by her hair in a school gym.

Americans were told that the Common Core standards would close the achievement gap between white and minority students and make U.S. students “college and career ready.” Yet, a new study validates what grassroots parent groups have known all along: the federally funded program, which most states lapped up for a quick infusion of federal cash, has bombed.

After Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was outed for “shit-posting” about Hillary Clinton, he was a “no show” at the Oculus Connect 3 Conference where Facebook doubled down on their corporate commitment by offering another $250 million in developer support cash.

The University of Alabama has backed off of a nearly $7,000 fee that it was set to charge the university’s chapter of the College Republicans for an event set to feature Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos scheduled for Monday. Initially the

How controversial is Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos? Controversial enough that his appearance at the University of Alabama requires security that costs seven times what normally would be anticipated for similar events staged at the university. On Monday, Yiannopoulos is scheduled to

Michigan State University Professor Joseph Guzman is taking a stand for free and open discourse in academia after being targeted by students for being a Latino who proudly supports Donald Trump. Guzman recalls the first day of the fall semester when students

The federal government gave Texas one month to show the State does not keep children with disabilities from receiving services and is in compliance with special education laws.

Campus leaders at James Madison University in Virginia have handed out a seven-page “free speech guide” to freshmen as part of their university orientation, which included a list of 35 things no student should ever say.