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Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large and DailyWire.com Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro is set to deliver a lecture at the racial turmoil-beset University of Missouri campus Thursday evening. But before he left for Mizzou, Shapiro warmed up Wednesday night by speaking to University of Southern California students about the rise of anti-Israel bias on college campuses nationwide.

BOSTON (AP) — Amherst College has turned on its mascot. Georgetown University is renaming buildings. Union College has a new motto.

On Wednesday, Black Lives Matter joined students at Occidental College in a demonstration that forced Occidental president Jonathan Veitch to leave campus under police guard.

On Wednesday, a congressional conference committee kicked off the effort to reauthorize No Child Left Behind (NCLB)—the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)—amid the concerns of many conservative parents, who would prefer to see education taken out of the hands of the federal government and back into those of the individual states and local school districts.

LOS ANGELES — Campus safety officers at Occidental College are denouncing a demand by a student activists that they stop wearing bulletproof vests. The police do not carry weapons, and bulletproof vests are their only protection.

Parents are furious and confused after learning that students at John Fiske Elementary School were asked by their music teacher to research controversial Chicago rapper Chief Keef, who is known more for his lengthy arrest record than his album sales.

Close to a hundred Michigan State University students and Black Lives Matter activists filled the halls and blocked access to an event where former president Bill Clinton was scheduled to speak on Wednesday.

Three student leaders at the University of Kansas face impeachment over their supposed failure to stand in respectful support of a Black Lives Matter group.

When progressive U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis gave his now famous dissent in the landmark case New State Ice v Liebmann, he wrote, “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”

Students at Occidental College who have occupied an administration building this week have demanded that campus safety officers stop wearing bulletproof vests.

As Gun Free UT suggests that campus carry is all about whites dominating people of other races, UT-Dallas graduate student Antonia Okafor — an African American woman — counters by pointing out that her focus in carrying a gun will be self-defense, not to advance the supremacy of any one race over another.

Dartmouth College’s vice provost for student affairs is attempting to comfort the raucous “Black Lives Matter” activists who are now facing national criticism for unleashing a disruptive, hostile, obscenity-strewn tirade on students studying in the school’s library.

A fight between teacher Ms. Burns and seventh-grader Diamonique Singleton broke out in the middle of class at a Detroit school. The school suspended Singleton after the incident.

The New York Post reports that students at Columbia University are being subjected to strong-arm tactics by the campus ‘Black Lives Matter’ activists who are pressuring them to take part in protests.

Authorities evacuated portions of Harvard University on Monday after they received an emailed bomb threat.

A Shelby County, Tennessee, high school teacher has resigned after police accused him of running a sex club as well as other offenses.

Black ministers tell Breitbart News that the racial strife at University of Missouri and Yale universities is “mass hysteria” led by Black Lives Matter – an organization they say hopes to “destabilize our society.”

In contrast to the growing number of foreigners coming to the United States to attend college, a review of federal data finds that Americans are studying abroad at a lower rate.

As the University of Missouri continues to simmer with racial unrest and students continue to crack down on free speech in the name of stopping “white privilege” and “microaggression,” Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro is heading to campus to challenge the students.

The Dartmouth Review reports that on Thursday, about 150 “black-clad” Black Lives Matter protesters pushed and shoved students and hurled racial epithets at them as they surged through doors of study spaces, harassing students studying for exams and shouting obscenities at them.

Obama’s statement in October 2008 that “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” is well-known. Less well-known is the fact that he said it at Mizzou.

On Saturday, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, weighing in on the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) brouhaha that led to the resignation of university president Tim Wolfe, wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the events were “absolutely awesome” for civil rights.

Public school zero tolerance policies may result in a nine-year-0ld Florida boy facing sexual harassment charges for writing a love note to a girl in his fourth grade class.

The kiddie Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is in full swing. One the one hand, we’ve got the Pantywaist Fascists too timid to handle “microaggressions” but just aggressive enough to call the cops for hurt feelings, the racists who ban white students from their “safe spaces,” and their weak-kneed allies calling for “muscle” against reporters. On the other, we’ve got the intellectual flotsam of the Occupy Wall Street movement, insisting that the one-percenters at the banks that grant loans now hand that money over for free so that they can use it for their vital degree in gender studies and their concentration in lesbian dance theory.

I am so fed up with all this BS. Who do you pajama boys and womyn’s studies majors and queer-theory professors think you’re kidding? It was a bad joke back in 1969 when some fool wrote a book called “The Student As Nigger,” and it’s even more preposterous now when a bunch of Ivy League pukes in New Haven have the gall to describe themselves as “marginalized students.” Shut the bleep up.

As the percentage of Metropolitan Nashville Public School high school students who have been rated proficient in end-0f-course Algebra I exams over the six years has doubled, some 10 percent fewer students actually took the exam.

According to KDVR, a Florida mother is upset with school administrators after they threatened to file sexual harassment charges against her nine-year-old son for writing a love note to a schoolmate. The fourth grader’s mom, who will remain anonymous, said her son

National “Big Higher Education” lobbyist organizations joined forces to gang up on Texas in an anti-campus carry statement that zeroed in on the University of Texas (UT) at Austin where days ago, activist Gun Free UT lawyered up in an effort to thwart the implementation of the new state law.

DONNA, Texas — Two Texas border public school board members have been indicted on bribery and attempted extortion charges. The charges were handed down Friday morning when the U.S District Court for the Southern District of Texas unsealed an indictment charging two of the board members with bribery and extortion in connection with services contracts for the district. A third person who is believed to have acted as a middleman has also been charged.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz offered a reaction to the recent string of college campus protests, including at the University of Missouri and the so-called “Million Student March” that took place earlier

ACTON — Members of the Acton-Agua Dulce school board voted unanimously (5-0) Thursday evening to allow students to choose to draw Muhammad–or not–in one of America’s smaller school districts.

The NAEP results were devastating: national drops of 2-3 points in 8th grade reading and math, and in 4th grade math (and with many individual states dropping by 4, 5 and even 9 points). This was unprecedented since the Main NAEP inception more than 20 years back, and the decline – particularly in math – was essentially everywhere. While statistically significant decline occurred in about half the states, all but seven states dropped in 8th grade math, and all but 13 states in the 4th grade assessment.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul argued that under fellow GOP presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s child tax credit plan “my fear is, that many more illegal immigrants will be getting tax credits and welfare transfer” and that college campuses have

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) argued affirmative action is “The only discrimination that people should be railing against on these colleges and universities” on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Clarke said, “These aren’t protests. This is an

BERKELEY — Roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered in front of Sproul Hall at the University of California Berkeley to protest for free tuition and demonstrate solidarity with students at the University of Missouri. The Berkeley demonstration was one of more than

Students at the University of Southern California gathered in solidarity with “Mizzou,” Yale and a slew of other campuses throughout the United States in a demonstration calling itself the “Million Student March” on Thursday to protest against alleged gentrification, racism and white privilege on campus grounds.