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Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak spoke at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this week, telling students and faculty that the principles of the Bible are essential to liberty — and more relevant than ever in the wake of the explosion of antisemitism on college campuses around the country.

Harvard University ranks last in the nation among colleges and universities for free speech — for the second year in a row.

Students in an Iowa school district have been heaping praise on a recent cell phone ban, saying that it has freed up their focus for more important things.

A strong majority of Americans approve of homeschooling as their faith in public schools diminishes, polling shows.

Pro-Palestinian protesters returned to Columbia University on Tuesday for the start of classes — picketing, calling on students to boycott their classes, and even vandalizing the Alma Mater statue at the center of the New York campus.

An Irish teacher who rose to international attention for rejecting transgender ideology and so-called preferred pronouns has been jailed for a third time after allegedly violating a court order.

An Ohio man facing child sex charges reportedly worked at several school districts prior to his arrest.

In a Black Lives Matter-inspired move, a British university has cancelled the term “Anglo-Saxon” from its curriculum.

A pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University announced that its account was “permanently banned” from Instagram.

Tulsi Gabbard, PragerU CEO Marissa Streit, and more speak at the National March for Kids in Washington, DC, on Saturday, August 31.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Moms for Liberty National Summit in Washington, DC, on Friday, August 30.

A Florida teacher is facing child abuse charges after allegedly putting a three-year-old autistic student in a headlock with her legs, police said.

Residents of Brooklyn, New York, are saying “none of us knew” or consented to a men’s migrant shelter being opened near their children’s private Christian school.

An elementary school teacher was arrested after allegedly dealing drugs over the phone during class in Harris County, Texas.

Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Education and its Secretary Miguel Cardona over a scholarship and career advancement program the organization says discriminates against Americans based of race.

Liz Magill, who resigned as president from the University of Pennsylvania, has found a new home at Harvard. 

Vice President Kamala Harris called for the removal of police officers from schools in 2019 to address racial disparities in student discipline, according to remarks she made during her first presidential campaign.

A group of pro-Palestinian students targeted the Hillel, the Jewish student center, in a rally at New York City’s Baruch College on Saturday — the latest sign that antisemitism is returning to college campuses this fall with a vengeance.

Pro-Palestinian students have assumed control of student government at the University of Michigan with the return to fall classes, suspending funding for student groups until the administration agrees to divest from, and boycott, Israel.

Kamala Harris blocked a deal that would have saved Corinthian College, interrupting the education of 16,000 students.

A reported 100 vehicles showed up to rally outside a high school in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Monday after students were told they could not fly the American flag.

Some schools around Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are changing their start dates amid a heat wave leaving classrooms empty as students prepare to return from vacation.

About 150 Boston area school kids were told to find their own way to school, as the state of Massachusetts diverts funding for buses to be used for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s migrants.

Democrat vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) was caught inflating his background and making it seem like Harvard University was behind a teaching program in China in which he participated, according to a recent report.

A Texas public school district has decided to prohibit the use of pronouns that do not match students’ biological sex.

Police say a first-grade teacher in Maryland has been arrested in connection to an overdose death involving fentanyl in Washington, DC.

Experts have been sounding the alarm in the wake of college prices approaching $100,000 per year when counting fees.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz bashed rival Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) for attending Yale — after Walz followed a long list of Yale- and Ivy-League-educated speakers at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday.

An Ohio school district compelled a Christian teacher’s speech by telling her to use the “preferred pronouns” of transitioning students, a federal court ruled.

The University of Kentucky is the latest school to close its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices, joining public colleges in Texas, Florida, and Alabama in eliminating programs that encourage discrimination based on race and sex.

Northwestern University announced that all students and faculty would receive “mandatory trainings on antisemitism” as well as “other forms of hate.”

Welsh libraries have reportedly been told not to meet in “racist” buildings amid taxpayer-subsidised “critical whiteness studies” training.

The disgraced Wisconsin teacher arrested in May for allegedly “making out” with a fifth-grader could get a life sentence if convicted. 

Four Michigan men, including a high school teacher, have been arrested after they were caught in a sting operation allegedly sending explicit images to or soliciting people they thought were underage girls online.

Almost one-third of Chicago’s well-paid public-school teachers keep their kids out of the Chicago Public School System, a study finds.

As ChatGPT and other generative AI tools gain popularity, their impact on education has become increasingly evident, with students turning to these technologies for assistance with their assignments. One category of conversation related to cheating, “homework help,” has emerged as one of the most common type of queries from consumers.