Monday at North High School in Des Moines, IA, President Barack Obama refused to endorse Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s education policy. When asked, “Of all the next presidential candidates that are in line, which ones have the best idea for
With Microsoft’s Surface tablets generating about $3.6 billion in revenue over the last year, Apple introduced the iPad Pro to protect their iPad franchise where sales fell to the lowest level since 2011. Although Apple’s “Pro” comes with a Surface-like detachable keyboard and stylus, its short comings may limit its popularity with the creative crowd.
A professor employed by Delta State University in Mississippi has been gunned down by an active shooter at Delta State University, a Bolivar County Deputy Coroner confirmed Monday, and the campus shooter remains at large, according to reports.
In a video made available to Breitbart News, GOP presidential contender John Kasich responds to an activist parent’s challenge about his failure to protect private student data in his state. The Ohio governor replied that he had no clue what she was talking about.
Saleh Abdullah Kamel, a Saudi banker who is now worth billions of dollars thanks to his success with Sharia-compliant financing, has donated $10 million to Yale University as part of a successful effort to build an Islamic Law Center at the Ivy League school.
In the Washington Post, Stanley Kurtz writes that the College Board, the company that administers the SAT, may be able to create a national education curriculum.
The White House just released a controversial scorecard system for the nation’s colleges, leveraging aggregated tax income data to rank colleges by how much graduates actually earn.
On Wednesday, a 13-year-old Maryland boy was arrested for stealing a kiss from a female classmate at school, police report. The boy told authorities he sneaked the kiss on a dare from other kids.
President Obama announced “my Administration is launching a new College Scorecard” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. Next week marks seven years since a financial crisis on Wall Street that would usher in some hard years for
Longtime Houston Independent School District (ISD) Superintendent, Dr. Terry Grier, unexpectedly announced his resignation effective March 1.
Plano police have said the call from a stolen cell phone reporting thata student had a weapon and a bomb turned out to be a hoax, according to a report of Fox4News in Dallas.
Roughly 80,00 California State college students who were enrolled in a mandatory sexual violence prevention and mutual consent course have had their information comprised.
On Wednesday, California’s Board of Education acknowledged that more than half of the state’s students in third through eighth and 11th grades failed Common Core math and English tests. The results of the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments were announced for the first time, reported The Fresno Bee.
A marijuana dispensary scheduled to open in October elicited a protest from community leaders in San Diego on Wednesday.
Middle school parents in Tennessee are up in arms on learning that their children were instructed to recite and write, “Allah is the only god,” as part of a world history project.
A scorching summer heat wave resulted in the early closure of all eight schools in the Bay Area’s Campbell Union High School District on Wednesday and Thursday.
A Washington Post article about the relocation of Planned Parenthood’s new flagship abortion clinic next door to Two Rivers Public Charter School indicates the school’s executive director appears concerned about the images of aborted babies her students could see on the signs of pro-life protesters. But no mention is made about concerns of the abortions going on inside.
According to the New York Times, while Dale Russakoff’s new book, The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? has just hit bookstores Tuesday, it is already “a source of enormous contention.” It begins in 2010 when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg became the subject of much media attention as he announced on Oprah that he would throw $100 million into Newark, New Jersey’s failing public school system.
The radical Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has developed a Common Core-aligned “anti-bias” K-12 curriculum–which it says is meant to teach tolerance in schools.
A new form of antisemitism is taking place in America’s public schools via textbooks, activists say. They are spearheading a nationwide movement to thwart the Islamic indoctrination of America’s youth.
Despite the Labor Day unemployment rate supposedly falling to 5.1 percent, the total delinquent loan amount for the 40 million student loan borrowers is now about $340 billion, according to the US Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid website.
On Friday, a U.S. District judge in Norfolk, Virginia, refused to allow a 16-year-old who was born a girl but later deemed to have gender dysphoria to use the boys’ restrooms in the high school.
Black leaders at the University of California Berkeley have decided to ratchet up their efforts at bringing more blacks to campus and making them feel more comfortable.
A former San Diego State University student accused of sexual assault last December has announced plans to bring a lawsuit against the institution after charges were dropped and the student’s suspension was lifted.
A Native American student at Cal State Sacramento University claimed that she was disenrolled from her United States History class because she insisted that Native Americans were the victims of “genocide.”
A senior higher education official has urged all universities to establish compulsory ‘sexual consent workshops’ in order to teach students that “no means no”. Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive of Universities UK – the university vice-chancellors advocacy organisation – called for the move,
“Next year the College Board will roll out a major change in the SAT that will make comparisons with past results impossible, and allow Common Core proponents to argue ‘these are different and better tests, so don’t pay attention to past results,'” Wurman states. “We are lucky that this year’s SAT has not changed yet, so the decline is clearly visible and cannot be hidden or denied.” The College Board president is David Coleman, the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards.
A Texas high school brawl was captured on a cellphone. Back-to-school means back-to-brawling for some out-of- control Texas teenagers at one high school. On the second week of the new school year, double dramatic slugfests were caught on one student’s cellphone and even were called “just another fight.” Meanwhile, the violent video made local news coverage, got picked up by sister stations in other TV markets, and landed on Yahoo News!, but no arrests were made.
The University of Tennessee, bucking political correctness, has ruled that the school’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion website will have to remove gender-neutral pronouns.
Graduating high school students’ SAT college admission scores fell again this year–to the lowest level in four decades. Rapidly growing expenditure on education seems to be producing poor test results.
Newly-released documents indicate that the husband of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign manager participated with other Ohio Department of Education (ODE) staff in a coordinated effort to falsely inflate the evaluations of some charter school sponsors.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed nine members to the new Governor’s University Research Initiative Advisory Board on Thursday. The initiative was one of his higher education emergency items listed during the last legislative session. It was also one of gubernatorial candidate Abbott’s campaign promises.
A new study conducted by researchers at North Carolina State University finds that students who have a southern or Appalachian accent are often discriminated against at the nation’s colleges and universities because of how they sound.
Numerous high schools in Gaza have begun to expel female students because they did not wear headscarves on the first day of school. There is no law that states female students must wear a headscarf, but that did not stop school administrators from punishing those who do not wear one.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said Thursday that the Common Core “is not working” and announced a plan to form his own “education commission” to review the standards initiative and report back to him on how to “fix” it.
On Thursday in Roxboro, North Carolina, a mysterious gastrointestinal illness may have been the cause of 668 absences in the school district, including 300 in the high school.
Senator Marco Rubio has taking a conservative hard-lined stance against the Department of Education.
Professors at Washington State University warned students in their syllabi not to say the words “illegal aliens,” “illegals,” or to refer to men and women as males and females. One professor also warned students to “defer to the experiences of people of color” while mocking “insensitive whites” like Glenn Beck.
On September 1, California Assembly members voted 42 to 23 to repeal an exemption that currently allows concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on college and university campuses for self-defense.
School districts across the country are rushing to make policies for the tiny number of students who claim to be transgender. The latest to make such a policy is the Troy, Ohio, school district which has added a “gender neutral” bathroom policy, causing gay and transgender groups to descend upon the town to celebrate the decision.
