Education

President Donald Trump’s Department of Education (ED) launched a new tool on Monday aimed at informing students about their post-graduation earning potential before they take on student loan debt.

New legislation passed by Italy’s lower house of parliament pushing back against “gender ideology and the woke bubble” is generating a meltdown on the left, the Guardian reported on Thursday.

A Kansas one-time “teacher of the month” allegedly groomed a student into an inappropriate sexual relationship, officials said. 

Erika Kirk, Turning Point USA CEO and the widow of conservative icon and free speech martyr Charlie Kirk, rejected the argument that “gun violence” was the underlying issue that led to her husband’s assassination. It’s “not a gun problem,” she said, adding that America is facing “a deeply human” and “soul” problem.

The increasing prevalence of AI-powered “nudify” apps and deepfake technology has led to a disturbing trend of students creating and sharing sexually explicit images of their classmates, with 75 percent of these images targeting children under 14 and even as young as 11 years old, according to a new poll of teachers in the UK.

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia has backed down from one of several legal fights surrounding its embrace of radical gender ideology after a now-former female student challenged the district’s transgender bathroom and preferred pronoun policies.

Harvard University reportedly hired one of its Divinity School graduates who faced assault charges against an Israeli student at an anti-Israel protest in the wake of the Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack.

A massive (and healthy) shift in public opinion has occurred, with only 33 percent of adults believing a college education is worth the cost.

Teenagers tend to distrust and dislike the news media, and the far-left Associated Press is not happy about it.

A University of Oklahoma student said her psychology instructor gave her a failing grade on an essay in which she cited the Bible, in violation of her First Amendment rights. The school now says it has placed the instructor, a man who claims to be a woman, on administrative leave while it investigates the matter.

A conservative group at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania released a video of a student tearing down its promotional flyers.

Media Literacy Now, an organization funded by the Biden Administration with ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and whose staff advocate for Critical Race Theory, is claiming to have successfully influenced education legislation in 20 states, including red states.

The Trump administration’s negotiation with Northwestern University has resulted in the school agreeing to fork over $75 million to the U.S. government to resolve a series of investigations into campus antisemitism.

A rising star in the field of economics has fallen from grace after his highly influential research on the impact of AI in the workplace was called into question, leading to an investigation by MIT.

A Rhode Island high school teacher who was placed on leave after he posted a video mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination and calling the Turning Point USA founder “garbage” is set to return to the classroom, despite being found in violation of school district policy.

A national poll of young voters reveals growing generational skepticism about America’s founding principles, the value of higher education, and deep divides over the limits of free speech and political violence, with a notable segment of respondents open to justifying violent responses in certain political contexts.

ED announced an investigation into the UC Berkeley on Tuesday in response to a violent protest at a Turning Point USA event on its campus. 

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is reportedly proposing the military cut ties with Scouting America over its embrace of gender ideology and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. 

The University of Minnesota is offering “Whiteness Pandemic” resources to caregivers as a way to “re-educate” themselves and guide children.

Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk says Turning Point Action’s support of Vice President JD Vance as a presidential candidate in 2028 is “in the works.”

Yet another kidnapping of young Nigerian women by jihadis of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) was reported on Sunday. The wave of violence prompted the government of Nigeria’s Bauchi state to close all schools as a precaution, including both government and private institutions.

Chicago Public Schools spent millions of dollars on lavish travel for district officials while less than a third of their students can read at grade level.

In an education landscape that overcharges and under-delivers, students and parents must look at “return on investment” and consider alternatives that will best prepare young people for career success, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.

A Missouri court has sentenced a 30-year-old former substitute teacher to a decade in prison for essentially turning her rural middle school students into prostitutes, paying them for sex and rewarding them with drugs and alcohol.

A conservative board of education member in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, is in the midst of a case regarding disgusting text messages that threatened her life.

The Austrian government said this week that it will implement a ban on young girls wearing Islamic headscarves in schools starting from the start of 2026.

A Rhode Island high school announced that it would be cancelling the remainder of the school’s football season after a 16-year-old reportedly assaulted and whipped a special needs student in the locker room. Video footage posted on X shows a

Arizona laws that distance sex offenders from schools didn’t stop a felon just released from prison from entering a Phoenix elementary and posing as a doctor so he could allegedly sexually assault a 10-year-old girl.

A grizzly bear went on a rampage Thursday and attacked a group of students from a tribal elementary school near Canada’s central west coast, leaving 11 people injured, according to emergency officials in British Columbia.

Police arrested a decorated teacher in Alabama this week after her son posted a video online that appears to show her beating his 12-year-old brother at least 22 times with a belt.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Thursday that cutting “bloat” at the federal level is critical to empowering education at the state level.

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) said the Trump administration could not be allowed to “mandate what happens on college campuses.”

The number of immigrant students in many deep blue U.S. cities is on the downturn as Trump’s immigration policies continue to roll out.