LAS VEGAS – Federal funding could be at stake as Common Core testing problems continued in Nevada, Montana and North Dakota, state and U.S. officials said. The three states contract with New Hampshire-based Measured Progress to administer the tests that are linked to hotly disputed, federally backed education standards. “We …
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Michigan Tech students and members of the Young Americans for Freedom organization spoke to Fox News Digital about an university professor’s angry tirade against their group. Audio from the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) released on November 14 featured history and anthropology professor Dr. Carl Blair appearing to launch into a …
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed TikTok on Tuesday over the dissemination of a letter from Osama bin Laden justifying the 9/11 terrorist attacks, vowing action against social media companies and announcing new tools to help prevent young people from having their “minds polluted by the venom that is being …
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Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said the country must focus on teaching children basic skills as math scores plunge to a new low. During an appearance on “America’s Newsroom,” Bennett reacted to new data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) showing how the U.S. compares to other countries …
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More than 500 Harvard faculty members supported University President Claudine Gay in a letter to the school’s board Sunday, following intense blowback from a congressional hearing about the rise in antisemitism on campus, where Gay failed to clearly state whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the Ivy League …
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The head of the Universities of Wisconsin system declined to reveal what the school’s regents discussed in a closed meeting Tuesday, after the collapse of a contentious deal with Republican lawmakers that would have required campuses to slash diversity positions and scrap an affirmative action program at UW-Madison in exchange …
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Zach Gottlieb is 18 years old, a high school senior and the founder of Talk with Zach, a Gen Z wellness platform. But he chose to tackle a different problem in a recent op-ed for The Los Angeles Times: cancel culture. “The op-ed I wrote is all about how polarized …
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A former college student who was trying to become a gym teacher sued a Michigan university and alleged he was discriminated against because of his weight and other issues when he was barred from continuing his student-teaching remotely. David Lopez, 44, was in Wayne State University’s physical education kinesiology program …
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A legal group is crying foul against Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s stance on the establishment of the first-ever religious-based charter school in the U.S., an issue being weighed in the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty (JCRL) are defending St. …
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A new Illinois law requiring annual mental health screenings for public school students is drawing backlash from parents, policy experts and lawmakers who warn the policy may overstep boundaries and wrongly label children. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the measure on July 31, making Illinois the first state in the country …
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