Two state legislators in New Jersey do not want the Mark Twain book, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” to be used in schools due to the use of the N-word.
Topic: education
Hamilton College Offers Course on Social Justice Promotion as a Teacher
Social justice in education is apparently the focus of a course at Hamilton College.
Good News/Bad News On Immigrant Education
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that newly arrived immigrants are better educated than their predecessors. Unfortunately, they are more likely to be on Medicaid and food stamps.
Bush & Obama Education Reforms
In the Race to the Top is No Child Left Behind?
Gender Neutral Declaration of Independence Read in Arizona School
A gender neutral reading of the Declaration of Independence took place at an Arizona elementary school, shocking at least one parent.
Elementary and Middle School could be Full of Microaggressions, Professors Warn
Micro aggressions could be running amok in grades K-8, warned college professors.
HBCUS @AEI
Did you know that the Koch brothers have given historically black colleges and universities millions?
History Lessons Teach Children to be Scofflaws and That’s OK
History lessons teach children a “healthy contempt for authority,” writes Reason.
School Boards Get Political
School boards are increasingly political and are anti-charter schools, writes AIA Executive Director Malcolm Kline.
Federal Vouchers or Trojan Horse?
To invest in federal school vouchers, or to leave it up to the states? That is the question facing conservatives under the Trump administration.
Faculty Lounge
University of Minnesota Offers Illegal Immigrant Students Scholarships under State’s ‘Dream Act’
Williams College Students Reject Pro-Israel Student Group Application
Swarthmore College Students go on Hunger Strike, Ask for Apology over Treatment of Protesters
NYU Department Boycotts University’s Study Abroad Program in Israel due to Government Restrictions
Pro-Socialist Professor Compares President Trump’s Withdrawal from Arms Agreement to Adolf Hitler
Black Lives Matter Exposed
Book Review
Why Angela Davis Should Remember the Jonestown Massacre
Not that anyone should forget but the revolutionary radical turned credentialed academic has a special reason to remember the mass suicide/homicide that occurred 40 years ago in the country of Guyana on November 18, 1978.
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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