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Some public school teachers are turning to violence to silence people with whom they disagree.

A group of students at Harvard University penned an op-ed for the Harvard Crimson on Wednesday arguing that a lecture by Charles Murray on campus “threatens the lives” of marginalized students.

Iconic social and political critic Camille Paglia says “transgender propagandists” are committing “child abuse” when they spread “a lot of lies” to gender-confused children and their parents that encourage transgender treatments and surgeries in young people.

TEL AVIV – Pro-Palestinian activists at the University of California, Irvine, have been put on disciplinary probation for two academic years over disrupting an event hosted by a pro-Israel campus group by chanting anti-Israel slurs.

The City College of New York recently announced a $1.2 million grant that will be exclusively allocated to female minority students looking to pursue “identity-driven” activism research.

UC Santa Cruz Professor Elizabeth Stephens, a pioneer in the “ecosexual” movement, is encouraging the public to engage in environmentalism by having sex with the Earth.

The Texas Supreme Court dismissed a 2015 lawsuit filed against the University of Texas and President Greg Fenves over the removal of the historical bronze statue of Confederate States President Jefferson Davis.

An increasing number of women’s colleges in the United States are opening their doors to transgender students, according to a report from the Associated Press.

Outgoing Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust denounced President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Tuesday, and vowed to lobby for DACA to continue.

A student at Edinburgh University is facing a backlash from his peers and a university investigation after he mocked ISIS on social media.

Assemblyman Kevin McCarty’s (D-Sacramento) legislation to ensure teachers in public schools cannot shoot back if attacked is ready for a vote on the state’s Senate floor.

In a video message posted to his Twitter account, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore says it is time to end the federal government’s involvement in education and allow parents to take the lead in how best to educate their children.

A Georgia high school teacher is getting a lot of heat from online users and the school district she works for after she kicked out two students in her class for wearing shirts with President Trump’s signature campaign slogan.

Students at Cornell University are encouraged to report peers who have “negative reactions” to a proposed LGBT safe space project, according to a report from Campus Reform. A flyer from the LGBT Resource Center at Cornell University reportedly encourages students to report

Institutions of higher learning including the University of Missouri and Evergreen State College have faced significant financial repercussions following their decisions to tolerate radical calls to curb speech rights.

Children as young as five are being allowed to wear hijabs by potentially thousands of state primary schools, alarming campaigners who say the Muslim headscarf sexualises children.

A Georgia high school teacher kicked students out of her classroom for wearing t-shirts in support of President Trump and compared the shirts to swastikas, according to a student’s video of the incident.

Tensions are rising at some Australian universities amid concerns that the Chinese government is infiltrating teaching methods across the faculties, according to a report from news.com.au.

Only 37 percent of U.S. 12th graders were prepared for college-level coursework in mathematics and reading in 2016, but many public school districts have become fixated on the latest progressive trend of “social and emotional learning.”

The deterrent law cracking down on Texas teachers who engage in sexual misconduct with students went into effect on September 1. The law, which also addresses other inappropriate relationships with minors takes effect amid record numbers of cases under investigation

MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, has found itself in an unfortunate situation after they accidentally transferred $11 million CAD (around $9 million USD) to a scammer who deployed a phishing attack.

Indiana University is rejecting demands for the removal of a depiction of the Ku Klux Klan from a mural located on campus, claiming that it represents history.

A Greek life retreat scheduled to take place at the University of Mississippi was cut short last weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree on campus.

The Global Times, a Chinese state newspaper, announced Thursday that the government would soon debut a new series of textbooks that would “place greater emphasis” on the mid-20th century war between China and Japan and give them “a strong sense” of China’s claims in the South China Sea.

Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey, announced its decision this week to remove a bust of its namesake, Richard Stockton, from the campus library.

Teachers in Durham, North Carolina public schools reenacted the destruction of a Confederate monument as part of their “Wear Red for Ed” advocacy program.

University of Chicago Law School Professor Laura Weinrib bemoaned recent decisions by the ACLU to defend free speech in a Wednesday op-ed for the LA Times.

A Texas high school cited “student safety” concerns as the reason for shedding its nearly 60-year-old Confederate namesake, General Robert E. Lee. This marks the second time in a week that public education officials in the Lone Star State used the rationale to strip a slice of history from a campus.

A significant drop in enrollment at Evergreen State College has led to a massive budget cut and a layoff notice that went out to faculty in a memo on Monday.

Cuba’s state newspaper Granma published a report Wednesday applauding the communist nation’s “higher education system” just days after Amnesty International condemned the regime for censoring the internet and punishing students who use “unauthorized” sources in reports.

Several professors from Ivy League institutions published a statement on Tuesday advising students to think for themselves.

Two law professors are facing charges of racism, sexism, and homophobia over an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Inquirer this month that calls for Americans to act responsibly.

A number of scholars from top U.S. universities have written an open letter to incoming students, urging them to embrace critical thinking and resist the “tyranny of public opinion.”

Two college professors from Stanford and Purdue universities have created, and are seeking financing for, the “Campus Antifascist Network” (CAN) to help bring Antifa to campus.

A group of Dartmouth professors is requesting that the college’s president retract his criticism of Dartmouth Professor Mark Bray who recently appeared on Meet the Press to defend antifa violence.

Yale University is now removing an 88-year-old stone carving that depicts a Native American and Puritan that was previously modified to remove the settler’s weapon.