One has to wonder if any of the eight principals complaining about Common Core are “white suburban moms.”
Eight prominent principals in New York have written and signed a letter to parents expressing deep concerns about the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests administered to students in grades three through eight.
The group, led...
Too bad the number of job opportunities for recent college grads isn’t rising nearly as fast.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Average Student Debt Climbs, Again
The average debt that borrowers of student loans had at graduation continued to rise last year, climbing to $29,400 for the cl...
There was no Rudolf to save the “Black Santa” display after a Twitterstorm swept through the campus of Indiana University.
Student reporter Tori Fater takes a look at the controversy.
A controversial bulletin board display was removed from Foster Quad Monday after it was brought to the University’s attention via social media.
The display...
Colleges and universities.
A national poll of four-year college students has found that they are more likely to blame colleges than other institutions for the rising levels of student debt. The poll, by the Harvard University Institute of Politics, found that 68 percent of those polled viewed student debt for young people...
Tamar Jacoby of the Los Angeles Times is starting to wonder if young people might be better off if they have options other than a traditional four year degree.
The college-for-all model isn’t working
Instead of going through Congress and making the initiative bipartisan, President Obama acted alone...
While some students would argue that a few professors aren’t fully present during dull lectures, at least they are physically present.
One former University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill got paid for a course to which he didn’t even show up!
A former professor at the center of an academic scandal involving...
College Insurrection recently reported that the most common grade at most schools is A. Now a report from the Harvard Crimson confirms the Ivy League is no exception.
Substantiating Fears of Grade Inflation, Dean Says Median Grade at Harvard College Is A-, Most Common Grade Is A
The median grade at Harvard College...
In Breitbart, famed “Southern Lady” author Charlotte Hays shares some background on her new book: When Did White Trash Become the New Normal?
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed in his Second Bill...
Did Brandeis learn nothing from the recent free speech incident at Brown University?
Daniel Mael writes at the Jewish Press.
J Street Activists Defame IDF Speaker
Former IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Barak Raz was rudely heckled by J Street U activists, who showed up late, did not understand his talk and accused him of...
The scholars in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student government seem to have missed their lessons on the US Constitution, as they have just passed First Amendmentment-killing resolution that bans offensive speech.
George Washington U. student Andrew Desiderio has the details.
“Certain derogatory terms diminish the broadly inclusive and welcoming quality of our campus,”...
Liberal progressives have created a monster in academia. They are in no position to complain when they’re held to their own standards.
Did I mention this was an English class?
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed has the story. Hat tip to Instapundit.
Taboo Subject?
Is talking about race at Minneapolis Community and Technical College...
A couple of months ago, we reported that the Los Angeles Unified School District’s iPad giveaway program was rife with problems, including students who managed to bypass site security protections.
The teachers are now chiming in, and the grades are not good.
Only 36 percent of Los Angeles public school teachers who responded...
Terence Ford is a writer for the College Conservative. In a new post, he looks at the harsh reality of Obamacare on campus.
Obamacare at Penn State
Free college! Free health care! More opportunities for college students! More jobs for graduates, guaranteed!
Statements like these have been used in some context by President Obama...
What’s a conservative parent to do when their children are being taught by liberal professors at a pricey, progressive institution?
On the Fox News Channels popular The Five, one of the host had sage advice.
Well, on Friday’s The Five, The Five, Eric Bolling...
Limousine liberals love to talk about how much they love the middle class. So why are middle class students so underrepresented in the Ivy League?
Nathan Harden of The College Fix writes.
The Ivy League: Still a Playground for the Rich
Despite supposed efforts to reach out to the nation’s poor, Ivy League universities...
The Democrats in the US Senate recently detonated the “Nuclear Option”, killing the filibuster for all practical purposes, even if superficially only as to non-Supreme Court nominees.
Brown University student Zach Ingber thinks the act just killed the “soul of the Senate”.
…The nuclear option is also disastrous because it moves the American...
We recently told you about a high school football team in Lunenburg, MA which was forced to forfeit the end of its season because racist graffiti was found on a player’s home.
O’Ryan Johnson of the Boston Herald is now reporting that the incident had absolutely no connection to the team.
Lunenburg cops:...
We have already begun reporting incidents at schools that involve push-back against religiously themed Christmas celebrations.
Those who don’t like faith-oriented lessons in public schools may wish to redirect their efforts to some Common Core lesson plans focusing on President Barack Obama.
The school lesson plan and accompanying visual presentation was created by...
We recently reported that Texas Wesleyan University, a Methodist school, has added a Muslim prayer room to their campus. Now we learn that the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, a Catholic school, has done the same.
I’ll repeat the question I asked in the last report: How many Islamic universities have...
The state of Pennsylvania’s university system is bracing for further cuts, to counter declining enrollments and state budget slashes.
Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard has the details:
…In the last few years, the universities have shed 5 percent of their permanent work force and discontinued or frozen new enrollment to 198 academic programs....
One has to wonder if Senator Elizabeth Warren was consulted.
Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times reports.
Easy for you to say: Campus considers dorm names ‘Houusoo’ and ‘Nowoo3’
Unusual campus names are a venerable college tradition — think Harvard’s Wigglesworth Hall or Southern California’s Argue Plaza — but nothing quite compares to those...
Despite the fact Barack Obama declared Mission Accomplished on the healthcare.gov website, his popularity is rapidly decreasing as Americans discover he is a Potemkin President.
University of St. Thomas student Vladimir Davidiuk takes a look at Obama’s entire political history, and wonders why people are actually shocked by the recent developments.
I wonder...
