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A Texas drama teacher convicted for exchanging nude photos and videos online with a 13-year-old Michigan boy received 20 years in prison last week on a federal child porn charge.

The owner of Holdheide Academy in Woodstock, Georgia, is defending a recent parent-approved preschool field trip to a gun range.

A woman alleged to be a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was caught on camera Friday afternoon harassing a student tabling for the conservative student group Turning Point USA.

The Qatar Foundation has been funding U.S. K-12 public schools, seeking to ramp up their Arabic language and cultural curricula with an eye toward globalization.

The Iranian Ministry of Education on Wednesday released a list of attributes that will disqualify potential teachers, including illnesses, unattractive features, personal habits, and even speaking with “strong accents.” Many of the guidelines are aimed at excluding female teachers.

An elementary school teacher in Indiana caught flack from parents and school administrators alike for sending a letter home warning parents to tell their children to stop talking about God, Jesus, and the devil in the classroom.

Despite the chaos that consumed Evergreen State College earlier this year, administrators are refusing to properly arm campus law enforcement.

A Texas principal announced Thursday that the high school band can no longer play “Dixie,” the Confederate era song later popularized in the post-Civil War South, because of “safety” concerns.

The school board of Reading, Pennsylvania, has rejected a proposed high school sex education center whose daily operations would have been run by the Planned Parenthood Keystone affiliate.

Parents of kindergartners attending a California charter school are frightened after a teacher read her class a book about transgenderism without notifying them.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ has reaffirmed the institution’s commitment to free speech in an email that was sent to students on Wednesday morning.

Mike Rowe, former host of the television show Dirty Jobs, fired back against a critic who accused him of siding with white nationalists in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

A slew of online petitions surfaced this week, fueling the politicized narrative to re-brand Texas public schools named for historical figures linked to the Confederacy.

Former FBI Director James Comey will be moonlighting as a lecturer at Howard University in Washington, DC, starting this fall.

Princeton University’s Office of Religious Life recently helped to organize a rally to raise funds for Planned Parenthood.

Children across Texas are heading back to school but two boys, in different parts of the state, got sent home because their flowing tresses violated grooming policies for males. Their parents are up in arms, claiming “discrimination” and “sexism.”

Howard University issued a statement on Twitter after two visiting students explored campus wearing “Make America Great Again” hats.

Following the chaos that erupted earlier this year, Evergreen State College administrators have introduced a mandatory workshop on civil disagreement for students.

Two teenage girls walking on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC, say students harassed them for wearing hats and shirts with President Trump’s signature campaign slogan.

A project headed by Bradley University’s Women’s Studies program warns that losing weight could be “dangerous.”

A professor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte recently penned an academic paper that argues that obesity should be “fashionable and fit.”

The University of Virginia College Republicans club was falsely accused of participating in the “Unite the Right” rally by a Twitter account which attempted to dox attendees, naming the wrong individuals in a variety of cases.

A Gallup poll reveals 71 percent of Americans rate private schools highest in terms of providing excellent or good K-12 education, while only 44 percent say public schools do the same.

Officials with the University of Texas ordered an after midnight removal of three Confederate statues from its campus. Workers removed the memorials under cover of darkness while a fourth remains for a later relocation.

The American Freedom Alliance hosted “From Gold to Dust: The Destruction of California,” over the weekend that featured an all-star lineup of conservative experts outlining why the California dream has been evaporating and how to bring it back.

A new document released by the Minnesota Department of Education is forcing gender ideology onto K-12 students and their parents by elevating the claim that biological sex is subordinate to self-declared “gender.”

University of Chicago Dean Jay Ellison reminded incoming freshmen in a recent welcome letter that the prestigious university doesn’t permit safe spaces.

In an email letter to her staff, reportedly obtained by the Associated Press (AP), U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos condemned the “views of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other racist bigots” during the Charlottesville protest as “totally abhorrent to the American ideal.”

A former Dallas school leader, who is black, spoke out this week to defend the city’s historical Confederate monuments and statues amid a national push to remove all reminders after violence erupted at a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally on Saturday.

Prerna P. Lal of UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Center took to Twitter in the aftermath of the Charlottesville chaos to argue that “white Americans are the original Nazis.”

A female student at Delta College in University Center, Michigan, is facing felony charges after allegedly falsely reporting a rape to campus police.

Administrators at Yale University have opted to censor a historical piece of art depicting Native Americans and Puritans, according to an article in the institution’s alumni magazine.

An Oklahoma federal judge ruled that a former middle school teacher convicted of raping a student must pay the victim $1 million for intentionally inflicting emotional distress.

A course being offered at Princeton University this fall seeks to combat “fat phobia” through dance and performance art.

University of Georgia Professor Richard Watson has changed his mind about a policy originally included in his syllabi for his fall business courses that would have allowed students to choose their own grade if “unduly stressed.”

Transport for London has been forced to drop a £2 million road safety campaign after criticism the depiction of a four-year-old girl wearing an Islamic headscarf was sexualising children.