Education - Page 291

In a move certain to infuriate the left, Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos has created the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant, “a scholarship exclusively available to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates.”

A former marketing executive for textbook publishing giant Pearson Education reveals the anti-American agenda behind Common Core and the Advanced Placement U.S. History framework in the third video of a series produced by Project Veritas and focused on the corporate cronyism behind the education reform known as Common Core.

Ron Unz, Silicon Valley’s libertarian billionaire businessman, wants to abolish tuition at Harvard, and so he’s created a five-member slate of non-partisan reform candidates for Harvard’s upcoming governance elections.

A few weeks ago I accidentally found myself surrounded by millennial college students. I was walking by the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. after the Georgetown vs. UNC-Wilmington basketball game when I overheard a group of millennials talking.

Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush announced his “budget neutral” education plan on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as he also lamented income inequality, asserted that education is a “civil rights issue,” and advocated for more opportunities for pre-K education for

Maryland’s Howard County Board of Education has unanimously voted to add Muslim, Hindu, and Asian holidays as days in which students will be off in its school calendar.

New Trier high school student Celia Buckman has written a passionate defense of her school’s mandatory day of “racial identity” education on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

During the GOP debate in South Carolina Thursday evening, Gov. Chris Christie said he “got rid of Common Core in New Jersey.” But is that true?

Republican State of the Union first responder Gov. Nikki Haley criticized 2016 contender Jeb Bush for supporting the Common Core standards, even as – in her own state of South Carolina – the “new” state standards are 90 percent aligned with Common Core.

The University of Southern California (USC) on Tuesday dropped several “intrusive” and invasive personal questions, which asked students about their sexual activity, from a mandatory online course.

A substitute teacher at a suburban Chicago middle school is under investigation for watching porn videos in the classroom, a report says.

A “mama grizzly” who spearheaded Ohio’s anti-Common Core grassroots campaign several years ago is now a primary candidate against the very Republican state lawmaker she helped to elect based on what he said he would do to bring about constitutionally-based

More students applied for admission to UCLA for the school year starting fall 2016 than any four-year university in the U.S.

In his final State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama counted the recent reform of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the law’s new pre-school provision as hallmarks of his tenure as president, and he said he will continue to fight for universal pre-K and free community college.

In an undercover investigation video about the education reform known as Common Core, a senior Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt sales executive laughs that she “hates kids,” and that textbook manufacturers are concerned about their profits, not the educational needs of children.

In an appearance on Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz explained how things have gotten difficult on some college campuses for those wanting to espoise various forms of conservative speech. Dershowitz explained how things have changed over the

New Trier High School, one of the country’s top public schools, is forcing students to attend seminars on racial identity on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “The goals for this day are to help New Trier students develop a

A California man who is the real-life version of Forrest Gump, has spent the last 486 days running across America’s perimeter to promote literacy.

Incoming freshman at Oral Roberts University will be required to don Fitbit wearable watches which will record their physical activity.

On Monday, January 10, Young America’s Foundation announced that it would be sending Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Ben Shapiro on a tour of college campuses around America to battle the resurgent campus radical left.

A sophomore from a North Carolina high school was arrested for claiming he made a bomb and then announcing in a classroom that he was going to blow up his school. Once apprehended, the teen also claimed he wanted to

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard a landmark case from California that could weaken teachers’ unions political clout nationwide, leaving them far less capable of supporting their Democratic Party clients.

While on the campaign trail, Rubio has commanded the attention of parents who have opposed the Common Core standards and the federal intrusion into local education that has come with the reform. In addition, he has honed in on the issue of rising college education costs coupled with massive student debt and yet often no jobs for college graduates to show for it.

The superintendent of the Maine School Administrative District 35 is scrambling to calm parents who were outraged that their high school students were offered community service credit for volunteering 50 hours of service in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

A private school, designed primarily for LGBT youth and teachers, is scheduled to open in September in Atlanta, Georgia.

More than 100 Missouri Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to top officials of the University of Missouri system calling for the firing of a professor and a staff member who called for “muscle” to threaten a student journalist covering a campus protest in November.

After the University of Missouri at Columbia was thrust into the national spotlight by a series of protests by black students that were vigorously supported by a number of faculty members, new enrollment figures have “decreased noticeably.”

The state of Georgia does not offer in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants and largely prevents them from gaining admission to the state’s best public universities, but one organization is touting it’s work-around effort.

The organization, “Freedom University” Georgia, calls itself a “modern-day freedom school” that offers “college level classes,” college application assistance, and scholarship help for illegal immigrants in Georgia.

One of the lead writers of the Common Core math standards is advising parents to avoid teaching their children how to do math problems, focusing instead on just making sure the assignments get done.

The Ted Cruz presidential campaign has launched its “Homeschoolers for Cruz” coalition during an event in Winterset, Iowa, on Monday.

Kenya’s Garissa University officially re-opened on Monday, nine months after al-Shabaab terrorists stormed the campus, killing 148 people and deliberately targeting Christian students.

A Christian college in the western suburbs of Chicago has begun the process of firing a professor who recently caused controversy for claiming that Christians and Muslims pray to the same God.

A “Dear Colleague” guidance letter, signed by former U.S. Education Department (USED) Secretary Arne Duncan and Acting Secretary John King, warns school leaders against “targeting of particular students for harassment or blame,” particularly Muslim and Syrian refugee students.

Sunday, on New York’s AM 970 “The Cats Roundtable,” Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz ripped the culture of college campuses today in America. He called college students “humorless” over safe spaces, political correctness and the war against free speech. [Relevant portion begins at the 7:12 mark] “They

Policy expert Betsy McCaughey says the overwhelming academic success of Asian-American students has stoked the outrage of school officials and non-Asian parents across the nation.

Arne Duncan gave his final speech as education secretary on December 30, expressing his “frustration” that Congress has not passed more gun control and his hope that more such control will be secured to keep school children safe.