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Dez-Ann Romain, principal of the Brooklyn Democracy Academy, a public high school, always kept her office neat and freshened with new flowers, and kept the school decorated with inspirational quotes.
“She was one of the most innovative school leaders I’ve ever worked with — her students just adored her,” said Courtney Winkfield, a New York City schools official who mentored Romain. ... Read more |
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Prince George and Princess Charlotte are set to be homeschooled during the Coronavirus pandemic. Get the details on their school’s decision.
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said Sunday that schools may remain closed through the end of the year as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread.
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Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the country, is closing all schools effective Monday, March 16. The shutdown is for two weeks as district officials "evaluate the appropriate path forward". The measure impacts more than 700,000 students.
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The University of Oklahoma is embroiled in a racial controversy after a history professor, reading directly from a “historical document,” said the n-word in class. Despite offering students a trigger warning before reading from the text, the professor did not avoid the usual outrage from a student culture obsessed with equating language with violence.
... OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. sent a letter to the OU community addressing the incident by announcing plans to institute a mandatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” training for all faculty, staff, and members of the administration. The training will address “implicit bias.” Harroz then focused on the faculty member who used the racial slur in the classroom. “While she could have made the point without reciting the actual word, she chose otherwise,” Harroz wrote. “Her issuance of a ‘trigger warning’ before her recitation does not lessen the pain caused by the use of the word. For students in the class, as well as members of our community, this was another painful experience. It is common sense to avoid uttering the most offensive word in the English language, especially in an environment where the speaker holds the power.” Oh man, do they have this guy trained. For whatever reason, they have this thing called a Black Emergency Response Team (BERT) at the university, and, naturally, they used this incident (if you can call it that?) to justify their own existence, organizing a hunger strike and a sit-in to protest the university’s response. Their demands – and we are not making this up – include the resignation of Provost Kyle Harper, equity training for all faculty, a new Multicultural Center, and a Popeye’s Chicken restaurant on campus. This isn’t the entire reason that we can’t take social justice warriors seriously, but it sure doesn’t help. It sounds like the OU campus is teetering on the edge of a total collapse of sanity and common sense, so it was a little surprising that Campus Reform could find a student with the actual capacity to think. “While I don’t think it’s okay to say the word, I do know that she did not mean the word in a racist or derogatory way,” said student Emma Wilks. “She was simply reading a speech word for word. I think it’s ridiculous that BERT is making this a racist incident when it was not.” Yeah, but how else are they going to get those delicious chicken sandwiches? Read more
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As the U.S. braces for a potential outbreak of the coronavirus, schools are grappling with a problem: How do you maintain a safe place for kids to gather and learn when the very act of gathering could make it unsafe?
The illness caused by the coronavirus, COVID-19, has sickened 84,000 people around the world and killed about 2,800. ... Read more |
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President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanently provide more than $250 million a year to the nation's historically black colleges and universities, along with dozens of other institutions that serve large shares of minority students. ... Read more |
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Someone let the monkey at the keyboard and this is what he came up with ... well it gave me a giggle.
Being one of the very few members that actually live in a Socialist run country, I can happily say that the scaremongers have got it so very, very wrong. ... Read more |
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This woman's story is going viral.
An Indiana teacher released a viral video this week giving riveting testimony about her dismissal from a public school because of her activism efforts against left-wing educational schemes. “My name is Jennifer, and I am a public school teacher who is also the founder of Purple for Parents Indiana,” she said. “I started Purple for Parents here to expose the truth about Red for Ed, the NEA and the radical agenda behind it.” ... Read more
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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring institutions of higher learning “to promote free and open debate.” Progressives largely opposed the measure, claiming the perceived assault on free speech is exaggerated.
Tell that to a conservative gun-rights supporter who was surrounded by a left-wing mob at Ohio University earlier this week. The Washington Post reports, “Students swarmed Kaitlin Bennett and her companions in a tense encounter Monday captured in several videos … showing students yelling, flipping off the visitors and at one point throwing drinks through an open window of their truck.” Bennett’s crime? She went to campus to ask students about “Presidents’ Day.” ... Read more
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President Trump says he's "like, really smart," but he communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents according to a new analysis of the speech patterns of presidents going back to Herbert Hoover.
President Donald Trump—who boasted over the weekend that his success in life was a result of "being, like, really smart"—communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents, according to a new analysis of the speech patterns of presidents going back to Herbert Hoover. ... Read more
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The University of Southern California announced plans Thursday to offer free tuition to students whose family incomes are less than $80,000 a year.
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'Progressive cities are failing to prepare students for their future'
A new study has found that America's most progressive cities — like San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. — have the largest racial gaps in student achievement and graduation rates, while some of America's most conservative cities are leading the way in racial educational equity. ... Read more
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** Sticks and stones...but words will never hurt me.
The University of Oklahoma is denouncing a professor who compared the popular ageist catchphrase to the “N-Word” during a senior journalism class.
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Dangerous people are filling the heads of young people with dangerous nonsense. Who are these people? They are what Jordan Peterson calls “the post-modernists:” neo-Marxist professors who dominate our colleges and universities. And here’s the worst part: we are financing these nihilists with tax dollars, alumni gifts and tuition payments. ... Read more
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**This is why we can't have nice things.
McHenry County College student and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president Alec Stone told Breitbart News that an employee at the college had vandalized TPUSA posters promoting an upcoming event, and replaced them with Antifa posters depicting violence against a person wearing a "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) hat. ... Read more
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**This can only end wrong.
Parents in the state of Washington are fighting a Democrat bill that would mandate LGBTQ-focused sex ed for children, including kindergartners. Democrats in the State House are pushing House Bill 2184, a measure that would mandate “comprehensive sexual health education” by the year 2022. ... Read more
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The educational gap between white and minority students is highest in progressive cities.
A recent study found that, contrary to popular perception, leftist-dominated cities across the country are actually faring much worse than conservative cities at closing the gap between white and minority students in educational achievement. ... Read more
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