British school teachers have been slammed for vowing not to teach British values in their classrooms. The teachers say doing so promotes “cultural supremacism” and shows insensitivity towards immigrant pupils from former British colonies. But their critics have hit back,
According to report that aired Monday on Huntsville, AL NBC affiliate WAFF, some students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are objecting to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as the keynote speaker for this upcoming spring’s graduation ceremony. One of those reasons
A New York professor has sparked a debate among educators over whether or not algebra is too hard and should be dropped from the curriculum.
A San Jacinto, Texas college student spent many years eating microwave pizza at home so he could save enough money to surprise his grandparents on Easter by presenting them with a $15,000 check to help them pay off the remaining mortgage on their home.
More than 200 Muslim students from 19 Texas universities attended an annual Muslim Student Association (MSA) Showdown during which they raised $16,442 for relief efforts for Syrian refugees.
Recent violent attacks against teachers in the St. Paul, Minnesota public schools are being linked to the adoption of the Obama administration’s “equity” policies that have grown into an ideology in which certain racial and ethnic groups have become “untouchable” when it comes to school disciplinary action.
The University of California-Berkeley student senate demands that free abortion be available on campus so that female students can “continue their education with little disruption.”
After coming under fire from atheist groups for the distribution of free Bibles, the Delta County School District (DCSD) has approved the circulation of atheistic, secular and Satanic literature to middle and high school students. Several atheist organizations, including The
In the face of a stunning rise in antisemitism on college campuses throughout California, often in the guise of criticism of Israel, the University of California Regents will vote Wednesday over whether anti-Zionism should be condemned as a form of discrimination.
Oscar-winning actress and lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow confessed in a recent interview that she struggles to help her young children with their homework because she doesn’t understand the curriculum.
Detroit’s Democrat mayor, Mike Duggan, announced that all Detroit students who graduate from a city high school will receive two free years of college tuition at a community college, eventually to be paid for out of the city’s property taxes.
The first Islamic Awareness Week at Boston College featured an event in which women were invited to wear the Muslim hijab and learn more about the lives of Muslim women.
A math teacher at a San Diego high school has been placed on administrative leave while school officials investigate an incident last week in which he was caught shopping for lingerie on eBay during an exam.
A pro-Brexit student group has been denied acceptance as an official university group because the word “Britain” in its title might have negative connotations for foreign students. Eurosceptic students at Keele University applied to their Students’ Union for formal recognition of their group,
Seventh-grader Ella Peters of Notre Dame Academy in Carmel Valley won the San Diego Union-Tribune Countywide Spelling Bee, and booked a place in the national finals, with the word “phlegm.”
The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm former New York State Commissioner of Education John B. King, Jr., as secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
Swedish authorities have been forced to admit that poor school performance and mass migration are directly linked. The declining level of the Scandinavian country’s schooling system and the huge influx of migrants are directly correlated according to the shocking report.
Students at Stanford University, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, are attempting to scrub names and symbols that honor people who are historically connected to slavery and colonialism from the college campus. The move echoes a series of colleges across the nation whose students have attempted to do the same.
A senior German academic has joined the chorus of voices expressing concern over the low educational standards of newly arriving migrants, and the significant knock-on effects that is bound to have on the German educational system. President of the University
Last week, Oakland’s Merritt College welcomed Cuban emissary Miguel Fraga to deliver an hour-long talk on Cuba’s perspective on the state of relations between the two nations.
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Sujit Choudhry resigned Thursday amidst accusations that he made sexual advances on his former assistant.
The Senate will vote Monday, March 14, on the nomination of John B. King, Jr. to be the next U.S. Department of Education secretary.
President Barack Obama’s administration has unveiled a new rule that will allow foreign graduate of U.S. universities to work in white-collar jobs for three or six years.
The scandal at Georgetown University regarding an invited address by Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has reached new proportions as pro-life students at the nation’s oldest Catholic university plan demonstrations to protest the event.
Ted Cruz said that – if elected president – he would direct the U.S. Department of Education to end Common Core and, ultimately, he would abolish that department altogether.
John Kasich attempted to dismiss his prior condescending statements toward parents’ grassroots groups in his home state of Ohio when CNN debate moderator Jake Tapper asked him about his view of the Common Core standards. “You have called opposition to
Donald Trump said Thursday night that education has been “taken over by bureaucrats in Washington.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) says it plans to “promote religious freedom” in schools, particularly for Muslim students who allegedly experience “discrimination” or “bullying” from other students in the nation’s public schools.
Now that the Oregon legislature has hiked the minimum wage, effective this July, colleges and universities in the state have a decision to make: hire fewer student employees, cut the school’s budget, or raise tuition.
Campus carry legislation passed out of Alaska’s Senate judiciary committee March 7 and is next expected to be taken up by the Senate’s finance committee.
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich stated he would withhold “capital dollars” from colleges that had students “walking in there and walking around in circles for two or three years, not getting a degree, ringing up the debt, and
Two weeks ago, I spoke at California State University at Los Angeles. The president of the university, William Covino, had attempted to cancel the lecture just three days in advance, after weeks of planning and activism by students.
In recent weeks, Marco Rubio has tried to hammer GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on Trump University. Multiple reports, however, suggest that this line of attack could backfire on the young Senator, who has financial ties to scandal-plagued for-profit colleges that preyed upon U.S. students. What’s more, Rubio used his stature as a U.S. lawmaker to help the for-profit college operation.
Qatar’s government-owned Islamweb.net is showing a video in which an Islamic mother teaches her daughter that Muslim girls who do not wear the hijab or who wear clothing that shows their arms, legs, or hair are “closer to Satan.”
On March 4, six members of fraternities and sororities at UC Santa Cruz were arrested for allegedly running an organized drug sales ring revolving around the drug MDMA, a.k.a. ecstasy or “Molly.”
In an ironic twist of political correctness, the University of Illinois has now felt it necessary to warn students and faculty that its sexual harassment training might feature “triggering” words or images that might “upset” people.
The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) has elected the first Muslim student to serve as its president at the school which brands itself as America’s “oldest Catholic and Jesuit institute of higher learning.
The Michael Bloomberg-funded group, Everytown for Gun Safety, is running a 30-second television ad in Georgia, urging residents to ask their state senators to oppose gun rights on college campuses.
Colleges and universities worldwide are incorporating into their curriculums the evolving genre of literature that focuses on the changes coming to Earth as the result of climate change – “cli-fi.”
Best-selling conservative author and senior editor for the Conservative Review Michelle Malkin slammed Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s support for Common Core standards, drawing loud boos from attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday directed at the governor.
