While Time magazine recommends putting the Bible back in classrooms, a Florida principal refuses to allow it even near the school.
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Extravagance without Accountability
Of all the myths that the higher education establishment has perpetuated, perhaps none is more pervasive, or contributes as much to the preservation of the status quo, as the notion that the blame for tuition hikes lay somewhere other than the central offices of universities
From Arab to Infidel
Her name is Nonie Darwish, an American resident since 1978, married and mother of three. Her voice has become a megaphone for Arabs who support Israel.
Federal Court Strikes Down School Policy
On Friday a federal district court in Syracuse, New York issued an opinion finding that school officials had violated a fourth grader’s free speech rights by denying her request to distribute her Christian testimony during noninstructional time.
2007 “Campus Outrage Awards”
Proving that crazy and absurd antics of college life are no longer confined to fraternities and sororities but have now expanded into the classroom and administration buildings, the Collegiate Network announces the 10th annual “Campus Outrage Awards.”
Save Our Summers
Educrats are trying to make compulsory education even more mandatory in the tar heel state.
Collectively Bargaining Away Education
Getting Down to Facts does deal with the key question of teacher quality. The massive report, released by Stanford researchers on March 14-15, the most thorough to date on California education, addresses two significant factors that contribute to the difficulty in developing a highly qualified workforce in California’s schools.
Georgia Public School Bigotry
On Ash Wednesday, February 21, a Catholic female
student at White County High School in Cleveland, Georgia had her
ashes wiped off her forehead by a substitute teacher in her Honors
Trigonometry class.
College Standards Left Behind
The old saying, “be careful what you wish for,” is especially apt when it comes to public policy, whose consequences seldom reflect intentions. Unfortunately, the U. S. Department of Education may be about to prove this adage true once again.
Ohio State Catholic Bashing
On March 27, an anonymous female journalism student at Ohio State University wrote a column in The Lantern, a student newspaper on the campus, titled “Going Down with the Catholics.”
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Outrage over Historical Figures, Names should Add Woodrow Wilson to the list
A Portland, Oregon high school teacher says that Woodrow Wilson’s name should be removed from the high school he teaches at.
Missouri Universities in Trouble as One Buys $1.4 Million Golf Course, Other Pays Chelsea Clinton $65,000 for Half-Hour Speech
Uh, talk about wasteful spending. A half-hour speech netted a $65,000 payout to Chelsea Clinton and a $1.4 million golf course to boot.
Displaying the Confederate Flag should be a Hate Crime, says Professor
Seriously, a hate crime for waving a flag? Well, the professor does teach in Massachusetts, so no worrying about local backlash.
Community Colleges Pay for the Tofu
President Barack Obama’s latest education initiative is #FreeCommunityCollege for American students, but it brings up the question, will it make a concrete impact on the higher education landscape? At the Brookings Institution, Maryland community college…
New Jersey Lawmaker Proposes Lottery System to Pay Off Student Loan Debt
Only in New Jersey, as Campus Reform reported: “There may be a new way to pay off student debt in New Jersey thanks to new legislation proposed by John Burzichelli, a Democrat assemblyman who represents…
The Next Liz Warren? Professor Busted for Claiming Native American Ancestry
Elizabeth Warren, meet Andrea Smith.
SCOTUS to Hear Affirmative Action Case from Texas a 2nd Time
The Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin case will be heard a second time before the Supreme Court.
Johns Hopkins’ Proposed Ban of Chick-Fil-A meets Counter Petition
To counter the ban, a student has begun to circulate a petition on Johns Hopkins campus in Baltimore, Maryland.
Satirical “Murder Free Zone” Protest Draws Ire of Portland State Administrators
Portland State University administrators were not pleased by the satirical protest, which mocks the concept of gun-free zones in the U.S.
Marco Rubio says if He’s President, He’ll Bust the Higher Ed “Cartel”
The College Fix reported: “Today’s colleges and universities are like early-America textile artisans who tried to fight the “power loom,” Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio said in a major policy speech in Chicago on his…