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Britain’s Telegraph reports today: Theresa May is planning to launch a new generation of grammar schools by scrapping the ban on them imposed almost 20 years ago, The Telegraph has learnt. In a move that will be cheered by Tory grassroots,

The University of California, Berkeley has installed a new escape door for staff to use in case of another student “sit-in” demonstration.

School choice supporters are urging the relocation of a portrait of Massachusetts nativist “Know-Nothing” Party Gov. Henry Gardner from its place of prominence in the State House. As their reason, they cite bigotry inherent in two amendments to the state’s Constitution based on his Party’s anti-Catholic sentiment in the mid-nineteenth century.

Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii spokeswoman Jessica Cier said the sex education legislation — which is becoming law without Gov. Bill Walker’s signature — is a “crushing blow for comprehensive and medically accurate sexual health education” because it will invite considerable scrutiny of the curriculum by parents and local boards of education.

A new report has found that history majors at most of America’s top universities are not required to take a United States history course.

Despite claims by mainstream media outlets, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) did not launch an official investigation into the Houston-based Harmony Public Schools. The TEA confirmed to Breitbart Texas on Friday they did not open a formal probe and reports indicating they did are incorrect.

On July 29, Breitbart News spoke to Mary Anne Marcella, a New York City school teacher who explained that a lockdown at her school caused her to realize that the teacher’s ultimate defense is a firearm.

An Iowa substitute teacher accused of having sex with a teenage student is now blaming the school for “allowing” the relationship to grow.

A new course offered at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay aims to merge the study of civil rights issues with the study of environmental justice.

A study released by the AMCHA Initiative details an alarming spike in campus antisemitism during the first half of 2016, and specifically nearly 100 more additional incidents of anti-Zionism — hatred for the Jewish state of Israel — during that time period compared with the same period of time last year.

TEL AVIV – A German university is offering a course that claims Israel’s military harvests organs from Palestinians and the Jewish state is committing genocide, the Jerusalem Post reported.

A North Texas teacher, accused of impregnating his 15-year-old student, surrendered to authorities Friday. This marks another improper teacher-student relationship that resulted in pregnancy recently amid the state’s skyrocketing number of sexual misconduct cases filed this year.

In an unfortunate turn of events for a small liberal arts college in Maine, Colby College’s bias incident report logs were published to the Internet, revealing dozens of reports about the campus’s gravest micro-aggressions and safe space violations.

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey from 2003-2014, the researchers found that, on average, the demands of full-time enrollment in college are substantially less than those for either high school or full-time employment.

Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio has offered students a safe space for those triggered by the Republican National Convention this week. “Last week’s tragedies have horrified us all and raised profound questions for our country. Amid our shock

Israeli and foreign researchers involved with Turkey’s academia told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that Turkish academics are living in fear, since the government implemented a travel ban in the aftermath of the recent coup attempt.

Israeli competitors earned a combined ten medals at the International Physics Olympiad which took place in Zurich, Switzerland, and the International Mathematical Olympiad which took place in Hong Kong, China. The Israeli teams, comprised of high school students, were ranked 19th and 22nd, respectively.

The Republican platform affirms the primary role of parents as educators in a child’s life, and supports a constitutional amendment to protect the right of parents to direct their children’s education from the overreach of federal and state governments and from potential international intruders such as the United Nations. It also upholds “parent-driven accountability at every stage of schooling,” and recognizes the value of local control of education.

The new framework comes in response to a 2011 California state law requiring the inclusion of LGBT history in the content of what students are taught in history and social studies classes.

A national LGBT rights group has condemned Harvard University for its decision to penalize members of single-sex clubs on campus. Administrators at Harvard University faced serious backlash after announcing a policy that would penalize members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations by

Nicholas Leslie, the UC Berkeley student who had been missing for several days following the Nice terror attack, has been confirmed dead, NBC News reports. He is the second UC Berkeley student this month to die in an Islamic terror attack.

An East Texas representative urged the state Attorney General’s office to open an investigation into the Houston-based Harmony Public Schools, purportedly linked to the controversial Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen. The charter chain stands accused of fraud, misappropriation of taxpayer dollars, shady business dealings, discrimination, conflicts-of-interest, and other questionable business practices.

Three students at the University of California Berkeley were injured in the Nice terror attack on July 14, and one is missing.

In 2010, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) indicated they had gathered 26 and 32 member states, respectively. But, by the start of 2016, 38 states had left one or both consortia, reports pro-Common Core Education Next.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks is under investigation for receiving free personal training from a campus fitness trainer and for alleged misuse of public funds for travel.

In the white privilege poem, Mann apologizes to white women, blacks, Native Americans, immigrants, and “everyone who isn’t a middle or upper class white boy.”

President Obama’s home state of Illinois is abandoning the Common Core-aligned PARCC test for high school students.

The Republican Platform Committee debated teaching Bible in school, in a measure that was ultimately adopted as a plank into the GOP platform.

Administrators at the University of Cincinnati have introduced a policy that requires new faculty hires to sign a “diversity and inclusion” pledge.

A professor at the University of Chicago has written a five point plan for college students on how to safeguard free speech on campus.

Two years after hard-line Muslims were discovered trying to take over schools in the city of Birmingham in a so-called ‘Trojan Horse’ plot, children in the city are not being kept safe, the chief inspector of schools has said. In

Student leaders at the University of Missouri are staging a series of bizarre plays in order to reconstruct the school’s image following the race protests that took place last September.

The lifeless body of a 19-year-old American college student found last Friday in Rome’s Tiber River continues to baffle Italian police as to the motive and circumstances of what is presumed to be a homicide.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit filed on Wednesday against the Obama Administration over Department of Education’s bathroom and dressing room policies. Texas was joined by thirteen other states in filing the suit.

Your tax dollars hard at work.

The Yale University Halloween email scandal in which two professors who defended freedom of expression were forced to resign has won first place in Harvey Silvergate’s ‘Campus Muzzle Awards.’