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    Education's middle ground is 'vanishing'
    Joanne Jacobs
    • 2 days ago
    • 2 min

    Education's middle ground is 'vanishing'

    When schools closed in 2020, support for schools remained strong, but the public's faith in the quality of their local schools has...
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    Teachers' union poll: Dems have lost  education edge
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 15
    • 2 min

    Teachers' union poll: Dems have lost education edge

    Voters in battleground states trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on education issues, according to a new Hart poll...
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    Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 11
    • 2 min

    Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’

    Moshe K. Levy considers himself “pro-human” rather than “anti-racist,” he writes on FAIR’s site. So he’s not a fan of Ibram X. Kendi’s...
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    UC sidelines ‘liberated ethnic studies’ mandate
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 6
    • 1 min

    UC sidelines ‘liberated ethnic studies’ mandate

    California students will need an ethnic studies class to get a diploma by 2029-30, but apparently the University of California won’t try...
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    ‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 6
    • 1 min

    ‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’

    Northern Arizona University will require all students to take four Diversity Perspectives courses in Global Diversity, U.S. Ethnic...
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    Born which way?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 5
    • 1 min

    Born which way?

    LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center...
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    Feds: No free lunch without LGBTQI+ conformity
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 2
    • 2 min

    Feds: No free lunch without LGBTQI+ conformity

    School cafeterias are not segregated by gender or sexuality in any state in the union. School sports teams, restrooms and locker rooms,...
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    Excellent lambs
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 28
    • 2 min

    Excellent lambs

    Photo: Jonathan Borba/Pexels In the 1960s, campus protesters rejected adult authority, writes William Deresiewicz. Now the “young...
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    ‘Incompetence, arrogance, woke rhetoric’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 25
    • 2 min

    ‘Incompetence, arrogance, woke rhetoric’

    The San Francisco school board’s vote to abolish merit-based admissions at Lowell High School amidst claims merit is “racist” angered...
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    Biden picks teachers’ unions over students
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 18
    • 2 min

    Biden picks teachers’ unions over students

    The Biden administration has abandoned the Obama legacy on charter schools and chosen teachers’ unions over students, writes Jonathan...
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    Causing discomfort remains legal
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 10
    • 2 min

    Causing discomfort remains legal

    Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...
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    High school cancels ‘Mockingbird’ play
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    High school cancels ‘Mockingbird’ play

    “Just hours before the curtain was to go up” last night, Shorewood High School (Wisconsin) “canceled its production of To Kill a...
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