Education

Illinois Bill Regulating Homeschools and Private Schools Attracts Major Opposition

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:04:06 -0500

Christian schools, parents, and lawmakers are sounding the alarm over an Illinois bill that would regulate home and private schooling. ...

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UC Riverside receives $500K to ‘diversify’ engineering faculty

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:13:47 -0500

Education expert calls similar programs an ‘illegal scheme’ The University of California Riverside will “expand efforts to diversify its engineering faculty” with the help of over $500,000 from the university system. The “Building a Pipeline for Diverse Future Faculty in UCR’s College of Engineering” initiative aims to recruit diverse faculty by mentoring potential candidates and encouraging…

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Faculty should use ‘collective power’ to resist Trump’s DEI directives: UMich webinar

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:06:10 -0500

Educators should ‘reorient’ their approach to the law, professor says While University of Michigan leadership recently announced its plans to roll back “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programming, it may face resistance from its own faculty. A recent webinar that drew 900 participants urged faculty to use their “collective power” to resist President Donald Trump’s attempts to push back…

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Professors blast Fox News hosts for ‘racist tropes’ against Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:00:54 -0500

MAGA and Trump show many ‘continue to see Black people as second-class citizens’ A pair of professors recently called out Fox News host Laura Ingraham and contributor Raymond Arroyo for their “racist tropes” against Democratic U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett. HuffPost’s Kimberley Richards notes the FNC pundits respectively referred to Texas’s Crockett as “street” and the “Madea of Capitol…

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Top conservative civil rights advocates seek repeal of Minority-Serving Institutions programs

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:15:13 -0500

Proposed alternative legislation to redirect funds toward need-based financial aid Some of the most prominent conservative civil rights advocates in the nation are calling on Congress to end Minority-Serving Institutions programs, calling them a “clearly unconstitutional set of federal programs that we believe Congress should defund and repeal.” Gail Heriot, Peter Kirsanow, and Daniel Morenoff…

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CCNY expands Black Studies Department to educate ‘scholar activists’

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:07:04 -0500

Department hosts ‘Queering Black History Month’ panel, offers ‘Performing Black Womanhood’ class City College of New York is expanding its Black Studies Department, including a new bachelor’s degree, office suite, and revamped course structure, to train students to become “scholar activists.” One outside scholar told The College Fix that many such programs today tend to be focused on “activism”…

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Conservative student group’s ‘Are you sexist?’ email angers leftist students at U. Iowa

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:43:35 -0500

WAAAAH: ‘I think it’s insane that that’s sent to everyone on campus’ As progressives on U.S. campuses continue to justify vandalism, harassment, and threats as “free speech,” an alleged “hateful” and “misogynistic” email sent by a conservative University of Iowa student group resulted in leftist students’ feelings being hurt. The UI Young Americans for Freedom email, which promoted an April 7…

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Novel Concept! Mississippi Schools Actually Teach Reading, and Well

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 13:00:00 -0500

Mississippi’s education miracle: A model for global literacy reform

(Arkansas Advocate) – In a surprising turnaround, Mississippi, once ranked near the bottom of U.S. education standings, has dramatically improved its student literacy rates.

As of 2023, the state ranks among the top 20 for fourth grade reading, a significant leap from its 49th-place ranking in 2013. This transformation was driven by evidence-based policy reforms focused on early literacy and teacher development.

The rest of the country might want to take note.

That’s because Mississippi’s success offers a proven solution to the reading literacy crisis facing many states – a clear road map for closing early literacy gaps and improving reading outcomes nationwide.

As an expert on the economics of education, I believe the learning crisis is not just an educational issue. It’s also economic.

When students struggle, their academic performance declines. And that leads to lower test scores. Research shows that these declining scores are closely linked to reduced economic growth, as a less educated workforce hampers productivity and innovation.

The Mississippi approach
In 2013, Mississippi implemented a multifaceted strategy for enhancing kindergarten to third grade literacy. The Literacy-Based Promotion Act focuses on early literacy and teacher development. It includes teacher training in proven reading instruction methods and…

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‘Equity lens’ required for assistant football coach at Minn. State University

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 08:55:45 -0500

‘Equity lens’ is a required qualification, whereas ‘ability to coach’ is only ‘preferred’ Should Governor Tim Walz ever hope to return to being an assistant football coach in Mankato, he might look to Minnesota State University for his next gig. The public university seeks a defensive assistant coach for its football team. But while it would be “preferred” that the applicant has experience…

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Professors can’t show images of Native American ‘cultural items’ in some California colleges

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:08:45 -0500

While a policy revision stalls, one professor says the moratorium is ‘like a sledgehammer to our collections’ The Los Rios Community College District continues to enforce a moratorium on “images and reproductions of Native American human remains and cultural items” after a new policy to narrow the ban was stalled, waiting for Native American tribal partners’ approval. The moratorium…

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School district apologizes for racial slurs despite ‘insufficient evidence’

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:02:11 -0500

OPINION: No one close to where the racial slur allegedly occurred even heard it A Texas school district apologized for an alleged racial slur incident, despite it acknowledging there is “insufficient evidence” to identify the culprit. Furthermore, there were no actual witnesses in the crowd that identified culprits and the accusers’ stories changed during the investigation.

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The Kate Dalley Show for 03/31/25

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:52:30 -0500

Dr Pesta debate on tsa bill; why are conservative kids still in public school? Makes no sense we trust Gov for schooling Michael J Schwartz on his new book The Only Way To Save America And then callers on boondoggle programs and never any results; excuses. ...

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Trump Education Order Shifts Duties to Other Agencies While Radical Left States Crack Down on Homeschoolers

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:00:00 -0500

While President Donald Trump’s executive order gutting certain bureaucratic elements of the Department of Education is a step in the right direction, the order does not eradicate the department and actually shifts many federal financial controls to other agencies, explains The New American’s Alex Newman for Behind The Deep State. President Trump’s move is helpful ...

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It never ends: Stanford professors wonder if 2025 is like ‘1984’ – because Trump

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 07:43:28 -0500

OPINION: Why believe the ‘educated’ who traffic in years-old ridiculous/bogus tropes? Progressives worried about the alleged right-wing distrust in “expertise” haven’t exactly done much to assuage those suspicions, especially given Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election. So-called experts who barely uttered a peep while the Biden administration actively colluded with Big Tech to censor news outlets…

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Police retract claim of ‘racist’ graffiti at Colorado Mesa University

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:12:02 -0500

Graffiti read ‘F*** ICE’ Local police retracted a claim officers found “racist” graffiti on a college campus. “On March 18, 2025, the Grand Junction Police Department released a statement on the vandalism that occurred at Colorado Mesa University,” the police department wrote on Tuesday. “In this statement, the vandalism was described as anti-government and racist,” the department stated.

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No-whites-allowed Illinois scholarship program for future professors under fire

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:09:38 -0500

The Diversifying Higher Education Equality in Illinois program, which provides financial aid exclusively to minority graduate students pursuing careers in higher education, is under fire for its race-based eligibility criteria, as it does not allow white applicants. Center-right legal experts argue the program violates federal law, and participating universities – including the prestigious…

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Black employee reports black peer for saying ‘tone it down’: UMaryland bias report

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:08:04 -0500

Meanwhile, student reports professor to the school’s bias team for saying ‘black culture is the problem’ on social media A black employee reported their supervisor, who is also black, to the University of Maryland’s bias team for telling them to “tone it down,” according to bias reports recently obtained by The College Fix. The incident is one of the nearly 30 reports obtained by The Fix from…

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Amherst College Title IX office goes after student following anti-DEI op-ed

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:07:43 -0500

‘No-Communications & Restricted Proximity Order’ regarding student with whom he never communicated An Amherst College student who last month wrote an op-ed for his student paper criticizing DEI — diversity, equity, and inclusion — initiatives dealt with harassment, a death threat, and incurred the wrath of the school’s Title IX office. In The Amherst Student, Jeb Allen criticized progressives’…

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Trump Must Scrap Discriminatory, Anti-white Obama/Biden School Discipline Policies, Says Parents Group

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:42:53 -0500

Obama and Biden implemented social engineering by applying a racial double standard in school discipline rules. ...

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Elimination of the Education Department Has Begun

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:50:31 -0500

The Department of Education announced on Tuesday it was letting go half of its workforce — about 1,300 people. ...

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