(Ashe Schow) A Duke University administrator said that the school limits due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct and plans to remove those protections altogether once Democrat Joe Biden becomes president.
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Mike Rowe: I Don’t Want To Pay For Your Useless College Degree
(Jordan Davidson) In a Facebook post Monday, TV host and personality Mike Rowe denounced student loan forgiveness and encouraged people to reconsider taking on debt for a four-year degree that may not even land them a job.
Forbes Shreds Democrats’ Student Debt Forgiveness Push: Makes ‘Mockery Of People Who’ve Played By The Rules’
(The Daily Wire) Steve Forbes slammed the push from Democratic lawmakers to pay off the student loan debts of everyone, or nearly everyone, in the country, calling it a slap in the face to people who sacrificed and worked hard to not be in debt from student loans.
Another COVID-19 ‘Myth’ Busted: Schools Aren’t Driving Infection Rates, Study Finds
(Waking Times) The return to schools in the US was memorably fraught with doomsayers like Dr. Fauci who at times allied with unions (particularly in America’s biggest districts like in LA, Chicago and New York) to force mayors to agree to lengthy delays of in-person education unless they acquiesced to measures on staffing and resources intended to ensure “teacher safety”.
K–12: The Life and Death of the Mind
(Bruce Deitrick Price) The life of the mind. This lovely phrase states what education is supposed to be about. All things bright and cerebral. Play chess. Write a story. Devise a plan for any goal. Weigh evidence for and against any proposal. Note that you could be perfectly still. These activities occur inside the brain.
Top Universities Hid Billions Of Dollars In Foreign Donations, Report Finds
(Tim Pearce) Top universities in the United States took billions of dollars in secret funding from foreign entities, according to a Tuesday report from the Department of Education.
WATCH: Black British Member Of Parliament Blisters Schools Teaching Critical Race Theory, Supporting BLM Movement
(Hank Berrien) Responding to Labour MP Dawn Butler’s calls to “decolonize” history in the British Parliament’s House of Commons, Woman and Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch absolutely blistered schools for teaching critical race theory and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, asserting, “This government stands unequivocally against critical race theory,” and condemning people “pretending” that Black Lives Matter is a “completely wholesome anti-racist organization.”
How To Stop Schools From Replacing True Virtue With Leftist Virtue Signaling
(Louis Markos) I used to believe that the main problem with education in America was that our public schools, community colleges, and four-year universities had surgically removed all traces of virtue from the curriculum. I no longer believe that to be the case. Indeed, I believe that the current situation would be better had they done so!
University Of Kentucky Segregated Residential Assistance Training By Race, Sent White People To ‘White Accountability Space’
(Ashe Schow) Whites and non-whites training to be Residential Assistants at the University of Kentucky were segregated according to their race and put through different presentations.
Sarah Michelle Gellar: Remote Learning Has Given My Son Eye Problems
(Paul Bois) As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, health and government officials still insist that the schools stay closed and children conduct remote learning severed off from their friends and all social contact. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) says this mode of learning is having negative consequences on her son’s eyesight.
Betsy DeVos, Education Department Issue Final Rule Protecting Free Speech On College Campuses
(Hank Berrien) On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos kept her promise to protect free speech on college campuses, issuing the Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and Universities final rule.
Teacher Tells Student She Doesn’t Have the Right to an Opinion Because She’s “White” and “Blonde”
(Paul Joseph Watson) Grandmother confronts teacher over woke brainwashing.
Trump Rips Into Critical Race Theory, Says Teaching It To Kids ‘A Form Of Child Abuse’
(Eric Quintanar) Speaking at the National Archives on Constitution Day, President Donald Trump ripped Critical Race Theory—the left-wing ideology that purports that racism is an effectively permanent and inescapable feature of American society—saying that it was a form of child abuse to teach it to children.
Trump Creates A National Commission To Promote Patriotic Education: ‘We Will Reclaim Our History’
(Ryan Saavedra) President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was creating the “1776 Commission” to promote patriotism in U.S. education as part of the administration’s efforts to combat the far Left’s agenda of trying to re-write American history.
How the Progressive Left Ruined Education
(Wen Wryte) The education of the young is quite rightly a serious concern to parents, teachers, and everyone else who believes that what children get from school is a major factor in their success in life and their commitment to making a positive contribution to society as adults. But the purpose of education today seems very different from what it was when I was a child in the 1950s and 60s, and this change has been imposed by radical progressive liberal-Left educational “experts.”