Crazy on Campus: U.S. Colleges — Where Truth Is Always Stranger Than Fiction
While George Orwell once said, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” even he might be surprised...
Education
Shut-up, White Boy! Professors: White Men Should Speak Last
An all-female university panel of professors and activists has an idea for combating "sexism" and "racism": Make sure that women and blacks speak...
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Punishing Success: Basketball Coach Suspended for Beating Opponents Too Badly
Call it athletics Marxism: In line with the growing trend toward "no-score" sports, a high-school girls’ basketball coach has just been suspended for...
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Obama Proposes Two “Free” Years of Community College, Taxpayer-Funded
President Obama proposed Thursday making two years of community college free for all students. Although his plan does not have an official cost...
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Education Expert Says College Freshmen Read at Seventh-grade Level
Dr. Sandra L. Stotsky, professor emerita at the University of Arkansas, recently said that Renaissance Learning’s latest report revealed that a large number...
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Michael Brown in the Classroom: The Schools Where Truth Doesn’t Matter
From an elementary school that had second-graders protest the Ferguson grand-jury decision to law schools that diminish the rule of law, truth is...
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School Districts Bribing Kids to Buy Washington-approved Lunches
In an effort to reverse declining school-lunch sales, at least two school districts have tried rewarding students for buying the new and unpopular...
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Parents Enraged by H.S. Sex Education Curriculum Taught by Planned Parenthood
A high school in Northern California is under fire for vastly overstepping boundaries in its sex education curriculum. A children’s sex education class...
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“Class Dismissed”: New Film Promotes Homeschooling
Class Dismissed, a new full-length documentary film about homeschooling, was screened in the Boston area on December 1, having already been seen by...
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Sight Method of Teaching Reading Causes Dyslexia
The sight-reading method of teaching reading, which was instituted in the 1930s in American public schools to replace phonics, actually causes dyslexia. ...
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The Taxpayer-funded Sex Conference That Twists Your Kids’ Minds
Teaching kids about Internet porn, stripteases, sexting, using virtual women, and anal intercourse? It's all part of an Oregon sex conference that's funded...
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School District Removes Religious Holidays From School Calendars
A Maryland school district has bowed under pressure from Muslim community leaders, electing to remove all references to religious holidays from school calendars....
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Too Many Minority Students Misbehaving? Solution: Stop Punishing Them
Under pressure from the Obama administration, Minneapolis school officials want to mete out punishment based on racial quota. It’s part of an effort...
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National Opposition to Common Core Continues to Grow
As parents and educators become increasingly vocal against Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the national movement against the federal standards continues to gain...
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Fifty Years of Title 1: Has It Worked?
Title 1, which is a federal program meant to help poor and minority children succeed in school, has been in place for 50...
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