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An op-ed in the Harvard Crimson published last week railed against communism, claiming it took 100 million lives during the 20th century.

A New York City high school teacher allegedly became a 17-year-old student’s “sugar daddy,” giving her cash and a taxpayer-funded job in exchange for sex.

The Church of England has responded to criticism of the sexualisation of infant students wearing the Islamic headscarf by encouraging its schools to continue setting “culturally and religiously sensitive” uniform policies.

Progressive activists are forcing public schools to teach and practice gender ideology in the name of civil rights, but more American students and their parents are saying “no” to the demands made on behalf of a minority who claim to be the opposite sex.

Thanksgiving came early to a Texas teenager who has been in the state’s foster care system since he was nine. His former high school teacher decided to adopt and became his forever mom last weekend.

Teachers should avoid calling female pupils “girls” or “ladies” because it means they are “constantly reminded of their gender”, a former government mental health tsar has said.

Forty-five teachers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resigned during the past few months because, they claim, students acted violently towards them.

Wilfrid Laurier University has issued an apology to teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd after secretly recorded audio from the school’s interrogation over her showing a video of Jordan Peterson went viral. After an audio recording of faculty berating Shepherd for playing a

In a searing new interview, bestselling author and culture warrior Mary Eberstadt has unmasked today’s identity politics as an intellectually bankrupt movement born out of the breakdown of the family and a rejection of rational discourse.

TEL AVIV — A Saudi academic stirred controversy recently with his call to allow academic lecturers to directly teach students without partitions.

A secretly recorded audio clip reveals the interrogation of a Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant who came under fire last week for playing a debate video that featured scholar Jordan Peterson.

A book promoting transsexuality to toddlers and preschoolers, entitled Hästen & Husse, about a transgender man and his horse who claims to be a dog, has been published in Sweden.

TEL AVIV – A children’s alphabet book titled “P is for Palestine” has had women from New York’s Upper East Side up in arms over what they say is nothing more than anti-Semitic propaganda.

Students in Namao, Alberta, Canada are calling for more separate boys’ and girls’ gender-specific restrooms in their school, asserting the gender-neutral bathrooms are making them feel “uncomfortable.”

The president of Wilfred Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, is doubling down on a decision to launch an investigation into a lecturer who played a clip of a debate that included scholar Jordan Peterson.

A video by UC Berkeley Professor Stuart Russell that cautions against the rise of autonomous weapons has gone viral since its release earlier this month.

The board of trustees of a North Texas school district voted unanimously last week to replace the Confederate namesake of an elementary campus to instead honor a revered educator, but the decision raised questions over the way they handled the matter — behind closed doors.

Gospel references have been stripped from a nativity story because children’s fundamental biblical knowledge is so minimal they would fail to understand it, a leading Christian charity has said.

The government should empower NGOs and race activists to police the media to ensure ethnic minorities are not portrayed in a bad light, and the school curriculum must be changed so that every child is taught Britain has no native population, according to a new report on Islamophobia.

School inspectors will speak to primary school girls wearing hijabs to ascertain why they are covering their hair, amidst concerns children as young as four are being forced to wear the garment by schools or their parents to protect their ‘modesty’.

A Boston high school gave a deceased homeless veteran a military-style send-off after students learned the man died in the streets with no living family members or friends.

Students at the prestigious Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, shouted down feminist Christina Hoff Sommers during her recent lecture at the college.

The University of Minnesota-Morris has suspended a student radio show from the air after they used the word “tranny” during one of their shows.

A lecturer at Wilfred Laurier University is facing an investigation after she showed a clip in class of University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson speaking on the issue of transgender politics.

Members of Mom’s March for America – a national movement of mothers designed to take back America’s culture – plan to attend the dedication ceremony of the Museum of the Bible Friday, November 17.

Two high-level University of California administrators resigned this week after they were allegedly caught interfering with a state auditor’s survey, according to a report from the Daily Californian.

A Louisiana mother is going viral after she came up with a unique idea to punish her teenage son for getting suspended from school.

Heather Brown, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, argues in a recently published journal article that small classroom furniture poses an obstacle to the academic achievement of overweight female students.

The Martin Luther King Jr. chapel at Morehouse College was defaced, allegedly by students from Morehouse and several nearby colleges, to protest “rape culture.”

TEL AVIV – The University of Michigan’s student government on Wednesday voted in favor of a resolution that would see the university investigating divestment from companies that do business in Israel.

“Horrified” students have launched a campaign to remove the name of four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone from a University of Liverpool building, claiming he was insufficiently devoted to the abolition of slavery.

The Texas school district that recently voted to re-imagine a campus named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee with a more welcoming 21st Century nomenclature, unveiled that the projected costs to re-brand hovers around $300,000.

Arkansas school districts are beginning to roll out “In God We Trust” posters in their classrooms this week after a state law passed in August allowed the national motto to be displayed in classrooms.

A Utah man launched a petition Friday to change the mascot of a newly-constructed high school because he thinks the name would invite dirty jokes.

Representatives from Knox College are defending their decision to cancel a production of The Good Person of Szechwan over concerns that the there aren’t enough Asian students to fill the cast.

University of North Alabama Professor Says Fat Professors Experience ‘Microaggressions’