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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 “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.

A New Jersey student distributed a petition to her local board of education requesting the school district recognize two major Muslim holidays with school closures.

The Associated Press aptly defined Republican 2016 contender Gov. Chris Christie’s position on Common Core as “shifting,” a description that could easily be applied to many Republican governors who signed their states on to the standards only to be met by irate parents and teachers once it was discovered what Common Core was all about.

The former assistant Secretary for Communications to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan writes that Sen. Lamar Alexander’s enthusiasm for his “bipartisan” education bill – one that supposedly prohibits the federal government from mandating the Common Core standards – is “shamefully misleading.”

On January 1, California residents will have to accustom themselves to a number of new laws that will be implemented in the state. Here are some the laws that will likely have the most profound effect:

Salon.com seems unable to understand just why so many Westerners have fears about the nature of Islam.

Common Core was produced in 2010 and before the end of that year most of the states adopted it, some sight unseen. Some states, like Kentucky, started implementing Common Core right away, while in other states the implementation was slower and took off a year or two later. By 2012-13 almost all Common Core states were deeply engaged in its implementation.

A report finds the overall number of children in the United States diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) jumped 43 percent between 2003 and 2011.

#Rhodesmustrise Who will join my campaign #Rhodesmustrise? The idea is to build in the middle of Africa a gigantic golden statue of the mighty British imperial hero Cecil Rhodes – a really big one, about four miles high, so that Kilimanjaro doesn’t

University of San Diego “Islamic faith” professor Bahar Davary used yellow badges like Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust to protest “Islamophobia,” triggering outrage.

A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that nearly all of the increases in college tuition since 1987 can be explained by the increase in student loans made more available by government policy.

Inez Feltscher, the Director of the Education and Workforce Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), talks about school choice and the omnibus bill.

A Texas middle school-aged boy was arrested on Friday, Dec. 11 for allegedly threatening to blow up his suburban Dallas public school in Arlington. The incident is now bubbling up with conflicting stories, a comparison to “Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed, and no mention of school zero tolerance policies behind these situations.

Two high schools in Nashua, New Hampshire have been closed after a terroristic threat and the FBI is investigating.

California’s record drought and the state’s inability to manage it has created shantytowns reminiscent of Great Depression-era “Hoovervilles” in once-vibrant agricultural communities across the Golden State.

The anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign is asking the federal government to harass Christian schools that have asked for or been granted waivers that would allow them to live out their Christian faith.

On December 16, school board members in Keene, Texas, voted not simply to allow armed teachers, but also to provide the handguns teachers will carry.

Police say the death of a 23-year-old man who was found unresponsive at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in Berkeley early Saturday morning is “suspicious.” The deceased individual was not a current student at UC Berkeley.

The Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta, (ISB) Georgia is working with Muslim middle and high school students on how to handle “attacks” against them or Islam, presumably by Americans, says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Adding to other disappointments for conservatives, the FY 2016 omnibus spending bill does not include reauthorization for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP).

A Massachusetts court has ruled that a Catholic high school violated a gay man’s rights when it revoked a job offer after he informed them he was in a same-sex marriage.

The Dallas Independent School District released the electronic mail threat received by staff on two of its campuses, revealing the hideous terror threat sent to schools across Texas this week, including the state’s largest school district in Houston. It was similar to the ones received by the Los Angeles Unified School District and New York schools.

Controversy erupted over one of the songs students performed during a Minnesota public high school’s Thursday night holiday concert, “Eid un Sa’Eid – Zain Bhikha.” This Ramadan-inspired song included the phrase “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is Great.”

The school board for PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, overturned a radical decision to ban the Pledge of Allegiance, Thanksgiving, and Santa Claus.

Augusta County Public Schools in Virginia are closed Friday, after parents objected to a ninth grade geography assignment that required students to copy the Shahada, an Islamic statement of faith that says, “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”

A Creighton University literature professor reportedly gave his students a final exam with a question that attacked GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as – among other things – the “Anti-Christ.”

British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis recommended Wednesday that Jewish schools in the United Kingdom teach — Islam.

School districts across Texas are reporting the receipt of threats similar in nature to those received by other schools across the United States. The threats were determined not to be credible and schools were not shut down in Texas.

MCALLEN, Texas — Parents in this border city received a message from the McAllen Independent School District advising them that they had also received a threat of violence similar to those sent to other districts.

A Michigan Catholic high school run by the Christian Brothers of Ireland is under fire for the creation of a “sacred space” for its Muslim students to worship during school hours.

Orange County’s Chapman University was evacuated Tuesday and cleared Tuesday night following a report of a man “possibly” carrying a gun.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) received notice of a terror bomb threat, which is now being deemed a hoax, on Monday night. Yet it took until 7:09 a.m. the next morning for the district to begin notifying parents that the school would be closed on Tuesday.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is defending Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Ramon Cortines’s decision to close the district’s schools on Tuesday because of an emailed threat.