San Diego State University’s Jewish President Elliot Hirshman was hounded, bullied and trapped in a police car on Wednesday by pro-Islam student protesters who accused him of not doing enough to protect Muslim students on campus.
About 37 percent of U.S. 12th-graders are prepared for college-level coursework in mathematics and in reading, according to the 2015 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). That’s down from the 2013 assessments.
The San Jose Public Library has revealed that three patrons owe overdue fines in excess of $10,000, and three owe more than $5,000, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Ynetnews reports: The chancellors of leading US universities, including MIT, the University of Chicago, and all ten campuses of the University of California, have clarified that they are opposed to any academic boycott, in particular to one against Israel.
A Texas teacher has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned she used the “N-word” during a history class on the Civil Rights Movement.
The president of the Traditional Values Coalition says that GOP candidate Donald Trump and others “don’t understand the full impact” of what has quickly become the new “mainstream position” of people pushing the narrative of “gender identity” on American culture.
Despite growing concern from students at Bucknell, members of the college’s Student Government Executive Committee have voted to uphold the suspension of part-time Breitbart Tech writer Tom Ciccotta as junior class president.
Donald J. Trump’s name topped a 15-page list of nominees for the new namesake of a Texas elementary school in one of the state’s school districts driven by political correctness to strip campuses of monikers associated with the Confederacy, a push that swept the nation following last year’s tragic shootings at a Charleston, South Carolina, church.
The graduate student union at New York University voted to approve a motion to support a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions resolution against Israel.
A graduate student union at New York University passed a motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel on Friday.
In 2012, the Donald Trump Foundation donated $20,000 to the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a gay activist organization that promotes the LGBT agenda in K-12 classrooms in public schools.
Tom Ciccotta, a student at Bucknell University, has been removed from his position as Junior Class President after taking up a part-time job at Breitbart Tech and inviting conservative speakers to campus.
Popular YouTuber Sargon of Akkad has set up a petition to suspend social justice courses at universities, gaining over 28,000 signatures at the time of this writing.
Several attendees at Milo Yiannopoulos’ American University speech on Thursday were threatened by social justice warriors, and one man was assaulted.
Amidst the chaos at Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ lecture at American University on Thursday night, a university faculty member threatened to call the police on a freelance journalist who was filming her with his cell phone, leading some to label her “the new Melissa Click.”
A female journalist and her film crew were harassed by a university official while trying to cover a protest over the appearance of Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos at American University.
UCLA students called the police over a series of “anti-islamic” and “transphobic” messages chalked onto the university campus.
It’s yet another story of politically-correct lunacy involving a university losing its collective cookies over chalk writings, but this time the “hateful” speech isn’t Donald Trump’s name.
This week a federal court sided with a transgender student who insisted that the Obama administration’s reading of federal Title IX rules would allow her to choose her own bathroom at her Virginia high school. Gavin Grimm, 16, a student
Posters promoting an event with Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos have been vandalized in the run up to his talk at American University in Washington on Thursday.
According to risk management consultants, universities are now spending millions defending themselves in sexual assault lawsuits involving both faculty and students.
Authorities at the University of Missouri have banned disruptive student protests, with offenders now facing the possibility of disciplinary proceedings affecting their degree or even police action.
On April 19 the Tennessee Senate passed campus carry for public schools colleges and universities.
A pro-Common Core civil rights conference says the priorities of the “new majority” of black and Latino public school students are a more equitable distribution of funding for their schools and an atmosphere that is free of racial bias.
The regional government of Saarland in Germany has proposed to test migrants’ IQ to aid in their integration. The Saar-Interior Minister Klaus Bouillon of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has put forth a controversial idea to help integrate
LONDON (Reuters) – On the 400th anniversary of his death, Shakespeare is more popular abroad than in Britain and makes a significant contribution to the UK’s prosperity and influence, according to a survey published on Tuesday. The British Council, which
A new app inspired by an illegal immigrant who couldn’t afford college tuition in the United States is intended to help other illegals find and win at least 10,000 college scholarships per year.
Students, it’s time to dust off that binder and put the laptop on the shelf: it seems that the former is a better learning tool than the latter.
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she has always supported national education standards and that she wants to see the same set of common standards for all public schools across the nation.
After celebrating the “bipartisan” passage of his new federal education law that replaced No Child Left Behind, Sen. Lamar Alexander says he has “disturbing evidence” that the newly confirmed U.S. Department of Education secretary is ignoring curbs on federal overreach in education Alexander says are in the new law.
The Jerusalem Post reports: A group of doctoral students at the City University of New York passed a resolution calling for an academic boycott of Israel. The Doctoral Students’ Council resolution, which called to “boycott Israeli academic institutions for as long
University students are increasingly unable to read a whole book as they simply don’t have the concentration spans required, nor are they able to understand complex, nuanced arguments, academics have said. Lecturers at leading British universities are having to actively
He is best known for “Don Quixote”, but the eventful life of Spain’s revered author Miguel de Cervantes was just as intriguing as any adventures of the delusional wanna-be knight of his famous novel. Cervantes — whose death on April
A new report on the state of the public school systems in Obama’s home state of Illinois finds they are $20 billion in debt with no end in sight to the growing budget failure. According to a new review by
During his annual State of the City address on Thursday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Los Angeles will commit to providing every graduate of the Los Angeles Unified School District with one free year of community college.
Newly released documents reveal that administrators at UC Davis spent at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of photos of university police pepper spraying students during an Occupy movement demonstration on campus in 2011.
The Citadel is reviewing a request from a female Muslim student who has been admitted to the military college that she receive an exception to uniform regulations and be permitted to wear a hijab.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Darletta Scruggs, an organizer for the so-called “Million Student March” movement, battled host Neil Cavuto about the merits free public college and the cancellation of all student debt. Scruggs argued money for war and
On Monday, University of California Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced that the educational institution will be eliminating 500 jobs over the course of two years, which will wind up saving an estimated $50 million.
A teachers association in Bavaria has said it wants to see Islamic studies lessons being made mandatory in all schools in the region. In 2009 the Ministry of Culture in Bavaria introduced a pilot program for the teaching of what they call
