The University of Maryland now has a website dedicated to helping current and prospective students who are in the United States illegally, a move in keeping with the recent announcement that the school had created an undocumented student coordinator staff position.
Although geeks have long merrily been celebrating Pi Day by dressing-up as ancient mathematicians, marching around in circles, and eating fruit pies since 1988, this year’s Silicon Valley festivities were hijacked to protest President Trump.
Carleton University faces severe criticism for its latest politically correct decision to remove weight scales from its gym and workout areas to prevent the “triggering” of overweight students.
I thought the grim lesson of the burger-flipping robot was so obvious it barely deserved comment, but comment I did… and soon discovered plenty of people do need this lesson explained to them.
A California elementary school has changed the name of its Father-Daughter dance to the “Family Dance” to “be more inclusive.”
In an unprecedented move, the vice provost at Santa Clara University overturned the student senate’s decision to reject Turning Point USA, a conservative non-profit organization, from receiving official status at the school last month.
A French junior school teacher has been suspended after he read passages from the Bible to students, aged between nine and 11.
President Donald Trump visited St. Andrew Catholic School in Pine Hills, Florida, on Friday to draw attention to his plan to open up education opportunities to every child with school choice.
“Solano County is warning people about an active case of tuberculosis [TB] on the campus of Armijo High School” in Fairfield, California, KOVR TV in Sacramento reported in its February 16 evening newscast.
A group of mostly white students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is demanding that the school offer a wholly free education to black students, even if they are convicted criminals.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio told reporters in a hallway just off the Senate floor that his friend, attorney Alexander Acosta, is an excellent choice to lead President Donald Trump’s Labor Department, shortly after the Thursday announcement. “He is a
The chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee expressed his support for businessman Andy Puzder’s nomination for Labor Secretary Wednesday shortly after the CEO of CKE Restaurants withdrew his name from consideration. “Andy Puzder has the experience and
Muslims outnumber Christian pupils in more than 30 church schools nationwide, including one which proudly proclaims to have a “100 per cent Muslim population”.
While the battle rages on in the Senate over the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary, there is opposition from two Republican senators, Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Collins has a 100 percent rating and Murkowski an 89 percent rating from the National Education Association. There is also opposition by another billionaire in the school choice movement, Eli Broad, who has given money to both Democrats and Republicans.
In honor of National Catholic Schools Week, President Donald Trump is praising the nation’s Catholic educators as “vital to our success and prosperity as a country.”
A Dallas public school teacher was filmed in her classroom mockingly shooting President Donald Trump as a live feed was projected of his inauguration ceremony.
A Utah high school teacher who pleaded guilty in 2015 to having sex with three students and was later sentenced to 30 years in prison is now asking for parole, insisting that her indiscretions stemmed from her “low self-esteem issues.”
A Labour party councillor has attacked a Roman Catholic school for insisting a 4-year-old girl conforms to their uniform policy by not wearing an Islamic headscarf to class.
An unsanctioned teachers group in the Philadelphia School District is pushing a Black Lives Matter curriculum on children but is facing skepticism and complaints for its efforts, a report says.
President Obama has spent his final months in office giving juvenile speeches full of excuses for why nothing bad since 2009 was his fault, while everything good was his personal handiwork. In truth, everyone paying attention can see the signs of a diminished America. A new Gallup poll finds Americans believing their country slid backwards in 14 out of 19 policy domains, with the worst deterioration in the national debt, crime, income inequality, and race relations. Here is the state of America after eight years of Obama.
The School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) Students’ Union has released a report which claims the “whiteness” of the school curriculum, coupled with the “unconscious racism” of white academics, is having a negative impact on Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) undergraduates.
A 14-year-old student allegedly hoaxed a Twitter threat from a social media account that she claimed was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Texas House leadership wasted no time in calling on the federal government to reimburse the State for the costs–to the tune of $2.8 billion–incurred as a result of the Obama Administration’s failure or refusal to secure the Texas-Mexico Border.
A school district is taking on new measures to shield migrants from federal immigration law, just as President-Elect Donald Trump is expected to crack-down on the issue.
Socialist Students, a social justice group that wants to remake the United States into a socialist country, say they will stage massive nationwide campus walkouts and protests to #ResistTrump on January 20 when Donald Trump is sworn in as nation’s 45th president.
President-elect Donald Trump changed the direction of the nation’s education conversation with a single name – Betsy DeVos. By nominating a champion of school choice and local control for Secretary of Education, Trump sent the teachers’ unions into panic.
On the day after Donald J. Trump was declared the President-elect, an incident in a Michigan middle school became big news when video of kids chanting “build a wall” was deemed a “racist” attack on students of color. Now the school is dealing with the backlash from that video and it has some parents upset at the student who posted the footage online.
A report by The Washington Post stokes fears among illegal immigrants and Muslims living in the country, claiming that President-Elect Donald Trump’s incoming immigration policies have “increased fear.”
The White House released a new report this week entitled Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy, as part of an admirable but very flawed initiative to understand the impact of the new technology on American employees.
Hatred towards Israel in general and Jews in particular is so rampant on some UK universities they have effectively become no-go zones for Jewish students.
LONG ISLAND CITY, New York – A Nassau Community College student was arrested after allegedly drawing over 100 swastikas on campus since President-Elect Donald Trump’s election, along with anti-Semitic phrases and symbols.
As a former governor who has fought on the front lines for lower taxes, stronger borders and less government waste, I know what it means to fight on principle for the conservative values that make America great. That is why I am surprised to see some in our movement now questioning the conservative bona fides of Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Education.
A new study by the Pew Research Center found that worldwide, Jews have the most years of formal education, followed by Christians, with atheists, Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus trailing behind.
JERUSALEM — All teenagers everywhere face serious dilemmas at some point in their lives, but for a group of Israeli high schoolers, one particular situation has caused a high degree of anguish.
The South China Morning Post begins its report on the crash of China’s education rankings in a rather anodyne fashion, but the buried lede is that China has been gaming the system for years by excluding the bulk of its population from previous studies.
The inclination to coddle young people and protect their fragile sensibilities is growing by the day, and now, it has hit home in a way that bears further criticism.
People in the north of England voted for Brexit in protest at the poor schools London politicians have given them, the outgoing head of school inspection body Ofsted has said.
The same MIT professor who called Americans “too stupid” to understand Obamacare has joined fellow professors in signing a letter to protest Stephen K. Bannon and other appointees by President-elect Donald J. Trump.
In a Common Core world where education is driven by college and career readiness mandates, incessant testing, and social and emotional learning, one independent filmmaker tackles the education establishment in a new documentary, Self-Taught, which zeroes in on how home school kids turn out, explores what defines “success,” and bucks the narrative pounded into parents’ heads that children cannot thrive outside the conventional institutionalized school system.
A study by Stanford University claims that most students can’t tell the difference between real news articles and sponsored content.
