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A poll by the American Federation for Children indicates the majority of Democratic primary voters favor continuing to fund charter schools.

The founder of the #RedforEd movement is now promoting “next-generation” political teacher activism to academics in graduate schools of education around the country in order to further advance a socialist agenda in the United States.

TEL AVIV — The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed a “peace and tolerance” resolution on Wednesday that calls for Palestinian school textbooks to stop “encouraging war and violence, antisemitism, hate and intolerance.”

A Chinese charity program called the Spring Bud Project, nominally dedicated to providing educational opportunities for poverty-stricken girls, apologized on Wednesday after boys were found participating in one of its fundraising activities.

A #RedforEd protest against Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos fizzled in Arizona on Wednesday.

The presidents of more than 400 state and private universities have formed a quiet partnership with a top-level group of wealthy investors to help foreign graduates, even though the same alumni will take prestigious jobs from the American graduates of those institutions.

Amidst fresh accusations of antisemitism, the far-left leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said that if elected he would force schools in the United Kingdom to teach the “historical injustices” committed by the British Empire.

A primary school in the English seaside resort town of Brighton has banned children from playing the playground game ‘Tag’, claiming the game was “too rough”, and encouraging kids to play with “gentle hands”.

‘Rewrite part of a Disney story of your choice but without the sexist/racist aspects. Think about gender roles, character and story outcome/ending.’ This is a homework exercise set by a geography teacher for her class of 11-year-olds at a British state school.

(AFP) — Beijing on Thursday criticised as “fictitious” a report by British politicians claiming there was “alarming evidence” of Chinese interference on university campuses.

Italian Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti has announced that Italy will be the first country in the world to make the study of climate change mandatory in public schools.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is working to elevate her status as one of the most outspoken pro-union presidential candidates and is expected to join teachers in Chicago on Tuesday as part of their ongoing strike, visiting a South Austin elementary school and “picketing with teachers and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten,” according to local reports.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday unveiled her public education proposal, which includes halting the “privatization” of public schools, stopping vouchers, enhancing protections for illegal immigrant students, and quadrupling Title I funding.

Actress Felicity Huffman has reported to a Northern California prison on Tuesday to start serving her 14-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to her participation in the college admissions scandal, according to reports.

Left-wing education policies restricting disciplinary measures in schools increase the likelihood of school shootings, said Andrew Pollack.

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) tells primary schoolchildren that there are over 100 genders as part of its “Teach” video series, which has some concerned parents and observers up in arms.

The South China Morning Post reported on Thursday that parents in Shenzhen, the Chinese technology hub bordering on Hong Kong, are seeking treatment for depression and anxiety because they feel the city lacks adequate educational resources for their children at a time when China’s big tech companies are planning to ramp up hiring and transform Shenzhen into a “model city.”

Children at an inner London state school in one of the roughest, most deprived, ethnically diverse parts of Britain have won spectacular results in their exams.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) moved one step closer to a strike on Tuesday.

Joe Biden appeared to suggest during an interview in October 2007 that race was the primary reason schools were consistently failing in the District of Columbia.

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” while addressing the Asian and Latino Coalition in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said at the Democrat debate “kids belong in classrooms not cages,” even though the feds provide education services.

An analysis of the most kid-friendly cities names Detroit, site of next week’s Democrat debates, the worst city for raising children.

Conservative surrender of academia corrupts the nation’s historical record, said Charles Hurt, Breitbart News columnist.

English schools will need to find almost 420,000 extra school places over the next decade, due in part to a baby boom among migrant mothers.

A Scottish 17-year-old who was suspended for filming his teacher telling him that he could not say in class that there are only two genders has been told he cannot return to his school.

The #RedforEd teachers movement has gone international. Elementary public school teachers in Toronto, Canada and other locations in Ontario held walk-in protests at elementary schools throughout the province on Thursday to demonstrate their opposition to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s education budget.

About four-in-nine illegal aliens living in the United States have no high school diploma, according to the newest data from Pew Research Center.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) education plan for K-12 schools could hurt the low-income students he claims he wants to help.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) proposed Monday a new $640 billion student college debt relief program that would also eliminate college tuition for all two and four-year public colleges.

Education and criminal justice reform were on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) agenda during a campaign stop in Spartanburg, S.C.

North Korean schools teach children to inform on their parents for the communist regime, Japan’s Ahasi Shimbun detailed in a report on Tuesday.

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder and Executive Director Charlie Kirk joined Breitbart News Editor in Chief Alex Marlow on Wednesday to announce that Breitbart News and TPUSA will team up for a new weekly campus segment on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily. Kirk said the weekly segments will give listeners the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts, “straight from the students,” about “the culture war that is happening on our college campuses.”

TEL AVIV – The President of California’s Pitzer College said he ignore a motion voted on by staff last week in favor of suspending a study abroad program in Israel.

The federal government used a fake university to bust labor traffickers who funneled at least 600 Indian workers into college graduate jobs around the United States, the Detroit News reported.

Rebecca Friedrichs said ongoing teachers strikes in California are “about more money for teachers unions’ far-left politics.”