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A new report finds that, under the guise of “personalized learning,” school-issued computer devices — now distributed to one-third of K-12 students in schools across the United States — are serving to collect and store an unprecedented amount of personal data on children without their parents’ notice or consent.

A professor at Arizona State University allowed students to protest President Trump as a group project effort instead of taking a final exam.

Students at the Claremont McKenna Colleges argued that objective truth is a social construct devised by “white supremacists” to “attempt to silence oppressed peoples” in a letter to the Pomona College president.

The editors of The Wellesley News, the student newspaper of Wellesley College threatened their peers who refuse to conform to the campus’ progressive orthodoxy, in a column that was published this week.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new “Spying on Students” report, educational establishments that provide students with devices such as laptops or tablets are not respecting their privacy rights.

In a lecture at Iowa State University, University of Michigan Professor Anne Curzan argued that the English language is “sexist.”

Students are expressing their concerns after the Wichita State Student Supreme Court decided this week to overturn the Student Senate’s decision to not recognize a libertarian organization.

On Thursday, Fresno State University canceled lecturer Lars Maischak’s scheduled classes for the next week. The cancellation comes amid a Secret Service investigation that followed a Breitbart News report on Maischak’s “Trump must hang” tweet.

A PBS high school lesson plan encourages students to empathize with young Palestinian terrorists who want to become suicide bombers to achieve martyrdom and suggests they would rather die because Palestinians have less land and are restricted.

A student at the University of South Alabama is taking heat from administrators for failing to remove a Donald Trump sign from the window of his dorm room.

U.S. Education Department (USED) Secretary Betsy DeVos made her first official announcement of senior staff hires Wednesday.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is beginning to assess campus sexual harassment and assault practices put in place by the Obama administration, policies which many claim violate the due process rights of accused persons.

Student activists at Duquesne University are fearful over plans to install a Chick-Fil-A in the school’s dining hall, claiming it will put their “safe place at risk.”

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is withdrawing protections put in place by former President Barack Obama for students who have mismanaged or are defaulting on their college loans.

Progressive student groups at Harvard sparked outrage this week after they posted fake deportation notices around campus in an attempt to communicate “the reality” of modern America under President Trump.

In a brief press release posted on the U.S. Department of Education’s website, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said she has accepted an invitation from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten to visit a public school in Van Wert, Ohio.

Members of Tufts University’s Jewish community told The Algemeiner on Monday they were “hurt and angry,” after the school’s student senate passed a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) resolution in a landslide vote on Sunday night, just ahead of Passover.

While U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos toured schools in Miami, Florida last week, she told the Miami Herald that illegal immigrant students in Florida “should not be concerned” about losing in-state tuition because the Trump administration is “very supportive” of states deciding for themselves on such policy.

Closing down the U.S. Education Department (USED) could be a snap compared to repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Federal prosecutors have recommended a 7.5-year jail sentence for former Chicago Public Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett who pleaded guilty to corruption charges in 2015.

The state of New Mexico has outlawed the practice of shaming children whose parents fail to keep up with school lunch payments.

After President Donald Trump’s Education Secretary was barred by progressive activists from entering a Washington D.C. middle school, a reassessment of her security recommended additional protection at the cost of $7.8 million tax dollars thus far.

The Utah state legislature has passed a joint resolution calling for a return to federalism in general, and, in particular, the end of the federal Education Department.

A mob of over 250 angry student protesters derailed a lecture on the rise of anti-police attitudes in the United States held at Claremont McKenna College on Thursday.

On Wednesday evening, the student senate at Wichita State University denied the request of students seeking to form a chapter of a prominent libertarian student organization on campus.

An online tool that helped college students and their families complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application for financial assistance has been taken offline until the fall.

The General Office of the Ministry of Education in China released its first official statement in February that condemns homeschooling and warns Chinese parents it is a forbidden practice.

A reporter from online campus watchdog site Campus Reform asks Harvard students to decide what they find more dangerous: President Trump or ISIS.

In response to Irving, Texas, school trustees saying “no” to declaring their district a “sanctuary,” one area activist reacted by telling high school students to boycott their classes on Thursday and Friday.

A “Salafi” Birmingham primary school has been forced to remove an advert for a male-only science teacher placed for “religious observance reasons”.

Columbia University’s student council this week overwhelmingly voted down a resolution that would have given the school’s entire student body an opportunity to express support for the anti-Israel BDS movement.

A driver’s education teacher from a south suburb of Chicago has been fired for refusing to instruct a student who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

An update from the Harvard Crimson this week suggests that female students may be exempt from Harvard’s policy that members of single-sex social groups will be ineligible for some scholarships, fellowships, and leadership positions.

Students at Northern Arizona University are demanding the resignation of President Rita Cheng after she condemned campus safe spaces.

Administrators at the University of Missouri have announced that three more dorm buildings will close just two years after the infamous campus protests that included a professor threatening to remove a student journalist from a public space on campus.

Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger, who was violently attacked by students after attempting to moderate an event featuring Charles Murray, claims that several members of her academic community have denounced “reason and logic.”