(Headline USA) Flerentin “Flex” Jean-Baptiste missed so much school he had to repeat his freshman year at Medford High outside Boston. At school, “you do the same thing every day,” said Jean-Baptiste, who was absent 30 days his first year. “That gets very frustrating.”
Then his principal did something nearly...
(Headline USA) As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism in support of Hamas, and some schools are adopting rules to limit the kind of protests that swept campuses last spring.
While the summer break provided a respite in student demonstrations...
(Headline USA) A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager into jail clothes and handcuffs on a field trip to his courtroom will be off the bench while undergoing “necessary training,” the court's chief judge said Thursday.
Meanwhile, the girl's mother said Judge Kenneth King was a “big bully.”
“My daughter is...
(Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may not have won the Republican presidential nomination, but he’s still fighting political battles on another front---in Florida’s schools, where his policies have the potential to leave a lasting legacy on public education long after he leaves office.
Though the seats are officially nonpartisan,...
(Headline USA) Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, praised the departure on Wednesday of Columbia University President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik, whose testimony before the GOP-led committee in the spring brought concerns over the university's tacit support for Hamas to the...
(Headline USA) Since her arrest at a pro-Hamas protest at the University of Massachusetts, Annie McGrew has been pivoting between two sets of hearings: one for the misdemeanor charges she faces in court, and another for violations of the college's conduct code.
The decision for which she now bears the...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Polarization Research Lab at Dartmouth College released a shocking study on American sentiment toward the right to free speech, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
The poll, titled the National Speech Index, consists of a 10 question survey with five permanent questions and...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A study performed by researchers at Texas's Rice University revealed that so-called black nationalism rose in a response to alleged "white supremacy," according to the College Fix.
The paper referenced Marvel's 2018 Black Panther film in the title: "Wakanda forever! Consistency in correlates of black nationalist tendencies."
The...
(Headline USA) Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in an unhinged rant on Monday.
Speaking at the American Federation of Teachers’ annual convention in Texas, Weingarten warned that if Democrats don’t defeat former President Donald Trump, the U.S. could descend into...
(Headline USA) Elon Musk announced this week that he will relocate the headquarters for X and SpaceX out of California after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law barring school districts from notifying parents if their child starts identifying as a different gender.
Musk has been previously outspoken against the...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Stanford University has made it clear that the Internet Observatory, a research group that has been accused of participating in social media censorship, is committed to its mission and will remain open.
Amidst the uncertainty, various news sources have been reporting conflicting information about the...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The nation's largest teachers union faced a strike of its own, in what was called an unprecedented event, according to Education Week.
The strike disrupted National Education Association's annual conference in Philadelphia, and led President Joe Biden to cancel his planned appearance on Sunday in awkward solidarity with...