Today, Michelle Rhee announced that she has started an organization called “Students First.”
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Neoconservative Blind Spots
Because the conservatives most likely to be employed in academia are of the neo variety, students may not get an accurate picture of conservatism or, for that matter, America.
DREAMing Of Bigger Budgets
What is known locally in Washington, D. C. as a dog-and-pony show is being played out across the country as proponents of the DREAM Act rally their troops to put this education spending proposal over the top.
V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N
Eating, sleeping and watching TV are not only part of living, they are part of many course catalogues.
The New Terrorist Threat
The center of the international terrorist network has apparently shifted to Somalia but its target remains the same—the United States.
Anti-Israel Bias @ BC?
A professor at that Boston College is warning her students about the dangers of Israel’s presence in the West Bank.
Thanksgiving Then & Now
Although the exact date is in dispute, it is generally assumed that in the Fall of 1621 in the vicinity of Plymouth Plantation, a group of very grateful colonists set down to a bountiful feast.
Michigan Meltdown
In Howell, Michigan, an out-of-control economics teacher booted two students from class after he provoked a discussion about homosexuality.
Israel Boycott or Censorship?
At least one visiting lecturer got to experience this treatment up close and personal.
Dependability Defined
I believe that we should pray as if it all depends on God, and work as if it all depends on us.— Morton Blackwell
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It’s Official: Betsy DeVos, Despite Opposition from Democrats, Teachers Unions, Confirmed as New Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos, a pro-school choice advocate and philanthropist, has been confirmed by Senate vote to become the next Department of Education secretary to fill President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking…
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The Berkeley Riot Expresses Dominant Anti-American Campus Culture
From Casey Mattox at The Federalist: On the campus of the University of California at Berkeley is a monument to student free speech. It commemorates the Free Speech Movement that began at Berkeley in the…
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Small, Hijab-Wearing Protest Group at Dartmouth Criticize Trump’s Refugee Executive Order
From Campus Reform: Dartmouth College students and faculty members protested President Trump’s executive order on immigration by wearing hijabs to show, as one professor wrote, that “we’re all Muslims now.” A student in the Tuck…
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Massachusetts College will Offer Full Scholarship to Refugee Student
The liberal, Massachusetts-based Wheaton College (not to be confused with the Christian college by the same name in Illinois) is championing refugees. This from The College Fix: In the latest example of academia thumbing its nose…
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Marquette University Students Unhappy that Ben Shapiro is Speaking during Black History Month
From The College Fix: A group of progressive students at Marquette University are upset that conservative firebrand Ben Shapiro is scheduled to speak on campus later this week, citing “Black History Month” as one reason…
Princeton University Student: University is Teaching Us to Hate Each Other
From the Daily Wire: A freshman at Princeton University, an Ivy League school in New Jersey, penned an article in Quillette discussing the hostile climate that the university fosters in 21st century America. Titled “Diversity for the Sake…
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Have Law Schools Doomed SCOTUS?
Here’s why good Supreme Court justices, or, for that matter, attorneys in general, let alone attorneys general, are going to keep getting harder to find: Law schools going the way of the Modern Language Association…
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UC-Berkeley Student Paper Editorial: Milo Yiannopoulos ‘Played the Victim’, Riots were Free Speech
Does that statement surprise you? It probably shouldn’t. Here’s the modern campus Left for you: The chaos which ensued Wednesday evening at the University of California Berkeley was “largely the work of outside anarchist groups”…
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After Anti-Milo Yiannopoulos Violence, Trump Threatened to Cut Federal Funding from Cal-Berkeley
After damages cost thousands of dollars, where anti-Milo Yiannopoulos protesters became violent and forced the university to cancel the event, President Donald Trump said he would consider cutting federal funding from the University of California-Berkeley.
Study: Majority of Immigrant Children in the US are US-Born
From the Migration Policy Institute: The number of immigrants and refugees settling in the United States has increased dramatically in recent decades as has their dispersion to numerous states that have not traditionally been a…