Absolutely everything under the sun that could go wrong with this year’s State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) did. Failures ranged from online testing glitches and vanishing answers, to missing test score results. It added to the growing frustration many feel about standardized testing in Texas public education.
Sen. Lamar Alexander told U.S. Secretary of Education John King during a hearing in April that his proposal to regulate a requirement that federal education dollars supplement state and local spending rather than take their place violated the newly passed “bipartisan” Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Activists are targeting Stanford University’s graduation ceremony on Sunday, staging a protest against “rape culture” at the school, in connection with the recent conviction of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, who received a light sentence.
In the name of integration a class of German children were put on an island and forced to role play at being “asylum seekers” with the intention of having them “better understand” migrants. On the island of Kaninchenwerder just outside
Children in kindergarten need to “understand there are many ways to express gender,” says a “core idea” in the newly released Washington State health and physical education standards.
A North Texas high school valedictorian gave quite a different kind of commencement speech at a graduation ceremony on Friday. She announced she was in the United States illegally, blamed the U.S. immigration system for her illegal status, and even took a few veiled swipes at the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.
A Texas school district administrator, who pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges, must pay back $500,000 she embezzled. This is part of a sentence where she will also serve 40 months in federal prison for falsifying standardized test scores.
The University of Oklahoma has revealed it will be introducing a hotline designed as a means for students to complain about microagressions and bias incidents.
A federal judge has ruled against a policy in which students at North Carolina State University must obtain a permit before expressing themselves as a violation of the First Amendment.
A recent report from administrators at the University of Missouri reveals the school’s plan to restrict access to the public campus in order to prevent protests.
The University of North Carolina is trying to evade a new state law which says people should use the single-sex bathroom that matches their original or changed birth certificate.
Public outrage and anger have greeted the six-month rape sentence handed down to Brock Turner, 20, the Stanford University student who raped a fellow student last year.
The mother of one of the girls who lost a high school track event to a boy who claims to be a transgender athlete is speaking out to criticize the school for allowing a boy to compete among girls because his physical advantages make his participation unfair to biological girls.
The executive director of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality says the Obama administration’s race-based “restorative justice” policies in schools have focused mainly on limiting suspensions and other disciplinary practices for boys of color, and that it’s time to do the same for black girls.
On June 2 a 9-year-old Fresno student refused to comply when told he had to remove his Trump hat while at school.
TEL AVIV – Microsoft has launched its latest R&D center in the predominantly Arab Israeli city of Nazareth, 25 years after it opened its doors to the first non-US R&D center in the Jewish state.
The leaders address the Obama administration’s recent “Dear Colleague” letter that denigrates the traditional common sense safety and privacy gender policy that boys must use boys’ bathrooms and girls must use girls’ bathrooms in school settings.
Many people reading the Facebook posting were outraged that I believe the leaflet matters. The historic act of dropping the atomic bomb made America a racist mass murderer and the leaflet was meaningless. Many people were further incensed that I had added the following comment to the Memorial Day posting: “I am still waiting to see the leaflet Japan dropped on Pearl Harbor.”
“Anti-American liberal lunatics have taken over this campus,” Kyle Smith writes at the New York Post about Northwestern University, where the appointment of General Karl Eikenberry to head a new global studies institute was blocked because, in essence, military veterans are too American for campus radicals.
A long-serving Texas border school district clerk pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $332,000 from school cafeteria concession sales on four campuses over a six year period.
Australia’s national women’s soccer team – hotly tipped for a medal at the Rio Olympics – has been thrashed 7-0 by a team of under-15-year-old boys. Students at Yale University have petitioned their English Department for a change of curriculum. They
Though it may seem hard to believe, California is on the verge of approving a K-12 curriculum for public schools that is even further left-leaning than its current program of instruction.
A controversy has ensued about the decision that Pottsgrove High School will not have an invocation or benediction at its graduation ceremony on June 15 – the first time in many years.
Many of the scholarships made available by the State of California to “Dreamers” — illegal alien children brought to the U.S. as minors by their parents — are going unused.
A high school teacher in Bangladesh has been suspended from his position after an angry mob demanded that he be kept away from his students, alleging that he had “liked” a Facebook comment critical of Islam using a pseudonymous account.
Dartmouth University’s Alumni Relations department has concluded that no student will be punished for the Black Lives Matter incident last year, where activists stormed a library on campus and hurled racial abuse at students.
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick announced Tuesday he will send out a letter to all Texas school districts telling them not to implement President Obama’s transgender bathroom policies.
The University of Missouri will use $1.1m to fund a “diversity audit,” despite a fall in both donations and enrollment figures.
Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) at the University of Santa Barbara have been caught in a dispute over the groups ideological direction after they hosted Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
The Qatar Foundation International (QFI) granted $100,000 to a Texas school district to promote Arabic language and culture classes that begin next school year. This marks the third school district in Texas to accept funds from the Qatari non-profit’s global gift-giving arm.
TEL AVIV – More than 150 professors at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, signed an open letter condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) movement, The Jerusalem Post reported.
An alleged “senior prank” between cross-town North Texas high school rivals ended with five teenagers in jail. The students face felony charges for vandalism and defacing school property with vulgar graffiti.
Democrat Louisiana state representatives launched an attack against the phrase “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence Wednesday in response to the state House’s consideration of an education bill
In contrast to the mayhem at DePaul University, Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos was given a hero’s welcome at UC Santa Barbara.
A survey shows that a four-minute medical animation video of what happens during an abortion leads over a third of “pro-choice” women to view abortion “less favorably.”
DePaul University has released a statement on its site and Facebook page as its reviews reached a rock bottom of 1.1 stars, after horrified members of the public took to the site to slam the university’s handling of a disrupted talk given by Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
The Republic of Turkey filed a 32-page complaint against the Houston-based Harmony Public Schools Tuesday. It asks the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to investigate and sanction the public charter chain over its practices and affiliations.
Nicholas Christakis has announced his resignation from his role as the Head of Silliman College at Yale University after he faced backlash for defending an email that suggested that the university shouldn’t prevent students from wearing offensive costumes.
Facebook reviews for DePaul University have plummeted to just two stars out of five since the university’s failure to protect both Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos and his fans during an event on Tuesday.
One of the most prominent Spanish language news anchors in the U.S. drew heat last weekend for using a portion of her commencement speech to attack GOP frontrunner Donald Trump — in Spanish — as English speakers booed and yelled, “What about us?”
