GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson joined Breitbart News Daily with host Breitbart News’s editor-in-chief Alex Marlow to discuss his education plan, which he revealed exclusively to Breitbart on Friday morning.
“To be successful, we must take the federal bureaucracy out of education and concentrate on empowering the American people,” Carson pledges. “This is the only way that ‘We the People’ can have the kind of nation that was envisioned by our founders.”
The state of Georgia does not offer in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants and largely prevents them from gaining admission to the state’s best public universities, but one organization is touting it’s work-around effort.
The organization, “Freedom University” Georgia, calls itself a “modern-day freedom school” that offers “college level classes,” college application assistance, and scholarship help for illegal immigrants in Georgia.
A former head teacher at one of the so-called Trojan Horse schools has become the first teacher in the UK to be banned from the profession for exerting an “undue amount of religious influence” on his pupils. The Department for Education
Led by an activist, left-wing teacher, high school students at Chicago’s Roosevelt public high school recently engaged in a boycott aimed at changing the way school lunches are made and delivered to kids in the Chicago public school system.
TEL AVIV – A Jewish math teacher at an Israeli university opened a class for the campus’ Arab cleaners to learn basic math. Shai Gol, who in addition to teaching is also completing his PhD at Bar Ilan University, decided
Head teachers at international British schools have warned the government that forcing them to promote British values, including gay rights, will put them at risk of imprisonment. However, the government has insisted that they must abide by the standard, saying
An entire school district in Virginia is closed Friday, after the backlash against an assignment which forced students to write the shahada, the Muslim oath that declares “There is no God but Allah. Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.”
The Department of Education (DfE) has instructed Britain’s education regulator, Ofsted, to prepare legal cases against the founders of three illegal Islamic schools in Birmingham, which were found to be teaching children extremist Islamic ideology. Fifteen such schools around the country
The University of Mississippi has decided it will no longer hold the “A Grand Ole Christmas” event that has been held on campus for the last six years because the name of the event is “too Christian.”
Just last week I overheard three colleagues discussing the evils of the British empire. “I despise it,” one snarled. “Me too! Look at Amritsar, what we did to the Native American Indians and our involvement in the Middle East,” another
An anti-racism rally planned at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to show solidarity with University of Missouri black activists was cancelled because the protest organizers are white. However, a check of one of the event planner’s Facebook page reveals that isn’t the case.
(Ferenstein Wire)—Silicon Valley is coming after unionized industries. A top investor in the Valley, Paul Graham, lit up Twitter, tweeting, “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups. (I don’t mean in simply paying people less, but rather that industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone.)”
In a video message to the participants in a meeting of alumni of Jesuit Institutions, Pope Francis asked his listeners whether they still had “Jesuit virus” or if they no longer bore the distinctive characteristics of a Jesuit education.
Due to a single complaint, the Bledsoe county, Tennessee school system has put in place a new ban on the distribution of all religious materials, including the Christian Bible.
President Barack Obama’s Department of Education has ordered a suburban Chicago school to allow a boy who claims to be a girl into the girls’ locker room, whether or not the girls or parents like it.
BOULDER, Colorado—GOP presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum went after fellow GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on the issue of increasing legal immigration, arguing that Graham’s position hurts the American worker.
South Korea has introduced “death experience” schools as a way to combat the country’s high suicide count. Statistics estimate that at least 40 people kill themselves in South Korea every day.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) allegedly destroyed Mosul University’s Faculty of Agriculture buildings. They captured the city in June 2014.
A statue of founding father and writer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson is sparking debate at the University of Missouri, with some students demanding that the statue be removed over Jefferson’s “offensive” history as a slave owner.
Administrators of the Chicago Public Schools were forced to lower the last four years’ graduation rates after admitting they inflated the passing rates and fudged the number of dropouts. The schools’ Inspector General had raised the alarm over the falsified stats early this year, but the district took no action until October. That was five months after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel won re-election, in part, because he used the false statistics as a campaign issue.
Parents in Walton County, Georgia, are meeting with school officials about the district’s curriculum, which parents feel pushes Islam on students.
Britain needs 1,600 new primary schools to cope with the explosion in demand caused by rising immigration, a new study has found. An education charity has warned of a “perfect storm” threatening Britain’s education system, caused by a massive rise
The Uzbekistan Education Ministry issued an order that bans people under 18 years old from Friday prayer services, even during Eid at the end of September.
Muslim parents and schoolchildren in New Jersey were outraged this week when they learned that the entire Jersey City school district would not be closed for Thursday’s Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
A 16-year-old Pittsburgh girl has been charged as an adult for allegedly throwing gasoline on two high school security guards and trying to light them on fire.
The latest video by conservative black teenager C.J. Pearson is going viral after his criticism of Obama for inviting a Muslim kid to the White House struck a cord with hundreds of thousands of viewers.
In a recent segment on Palestinian television about the future ambitions of young children, two Palestinian boys revealed that their most prominent desire was to kill Jews.
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.
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 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.
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.
A new study finds that more college-age kids are now smoking pot than they are tobacco.
Students at a Missouri high school staged a walk out in support of a boy who has insisted that as a transgender student he should be allowed to use the girl’s locker room and bathrooms.
Yesterday was the first day of school for many children in Texas, and Governor Greg Abbott celebrated the day by visiting Zavala Elementary School in Austin, Texas. The Governor reiterated his commitment to make Texas number one in the nation for education.
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table,” Mark Levin quotes President Reagan’s Farewell Speech in the final chapter of Plunder and Deceit.
Today’s GCSE results are set to show an increasing number of students sitting exams in “community languages” as an “easy” route to a top grade. This comes as schools and parents report there have been recent rises in students being
At least 398 children have been killed and more than 605 maimed since the “brutal armed conflict” in Yemen escalated on March 26, reported the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF on Wednesday.
The American Federation for Children, an organization that promotes school choice and advocates for school vouchers, partnered with The Seventy Four, a non-profit and non-partisan website that covers news about education, to host the 2015 New Hampshire Education Summit where experts in education reform and GOP presidential candidates spoke about reforming the educational system.
Parents at a segregated-sex school in London have been angered by the news that genders will now mix. The school is about 90 per cent Muslim, but the principle says he will not have his reforms stopped by a “quite
