There seems to be no end to zero-tolerance stories in education these days. The latest is brought to us by a high school in Atlanta.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Student hugs his teacher, gets suspended for a YEAR for sexual harassment
A high school senior in the suburbs of Atlanta has...
While we report often on the fiscal challenging facing students working on undergraduate degrees, it appears that those going for even pricier graduate ones are also being slammed hard.
And an analysis of recent numbers shows that as the Higher Education Bubble pops, fewer undergrads are opting to go for those...
Given the atmosphere on some college campuses today, Catholics have bigger things to worry about than donations from the Kochs.
Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart reports.
Leftist Catholics Wary of Koch $1M Donation to Catholic University
On Friday, a group of left-wing Catholic academics bashed the Tea Party in a letter to John Garvey,...
As the recent bomb scare at Harvard shows, the campus police are ever ready to respond to emergency situations in a professional manner.
However, for many college towns, there is increasing concerns about their boundary of their reach, especially in high-crime areas.
…[A] proposed expansion of authority has stirred concerns in Washington, D.C.,...
Monday’s bomb threat at Harvard was a hoax. Cheryl K. Chumley of the Washington Times reported yesterday that many Harvard students suspected fraud.
CBS News in Boston now confirms.
Harvard Student Charged In Bomb Hoax
A Harvard student has been charged in connection with Monday’s bomb threats which shut down four Harvard buildings and...
There is a new group of students that diversity outreach programs don’t really seem to address: Homeless students.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid estimates that there are 58,000 homeless students on campuses nationwide…and between the burden of student loans and high cost of tuition, the number of students without homes...
Stanford economics professor Michael J. Boskin has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal which examines Obamacare. At the time of this writing, it’s the most read story at Real Clear Politics.
ObamaCare’s Troubles Are Only Beginning
The White House is claiming that the Healthcare.gov website is mostly fixed, that the millions...
The University of California – Berkeley student newspaper, The Daily Californian, is featuring a special “Millenials Issue” that offers student opinion pieces related to the current generation of scholars.
Articles include:
Brendan Pinder, the president of Berkeley College Republicans,...
Do you think the highest paid college president is at Harvard? Yale? Keep guessing.
Morgan Korn of the Daily Ticker reports.
College Student Debt Soars; College Presidents’ Pay Skyrockets
Presidents of U.S. colleges and universities fundraise with donors, preside over graduation ceremonies and provide unversities with long-range strategic vision. They are also paid handsomely...
A recent law school graduate was interviewed by Business Insider and makes a compelling case against following in his footsteps, especially in terms of high debt and low quality of life (via Instapundit).
This law school graduate’s answers are sobering. He attended a school that’s one of the top 20 in the...
These students are going to be telling this story for the rest of their lives. What a great exchange.
FOX News reports.
Pope Francis trades skullcaps with Boston College students
Two Boston College students studying in Rome came away with a precious memento after an up-close encounter with Pope Francis.
Katie Rich, of Minnetonka, Minnesota,...
If the findings of a new study are to believed, perhaps instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars to improve SAT scores and admittance essays, parents would be wise to invest in modeling and grooming classes for their kids.
An intriguing new study finds that high schoolers who are physically attractive are...
Joseph Klein of Frontpage Mag has written a new piece which documents a disturbing trend on American college campuses.
The Alarming Rise of Campus Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses is growing at an alarming rate. It has escalated to the point that Jewish students on campuses have been physically attacked or threatened...
“Independent. Active. Adventurous.”’
This is how Denver-based magazine 5280 described the state’s female citizens in its December article titled Colorado Women.
The article also listed only liberal Democrat examples, and University of Colorado – Boulder student Aslinn Scott rightly objects.
….In presenting the history and the women in the article, one label that the...
Nick Gillespie of Reason TV recently sat down for this interview with Mike Rowe in which they discuss the cost of college and jobs for college aged people.
It’s 41 minutes long and completely worth your time.
Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College
“If...
In the wake of the President Obama’s selfie scandal, it is heartening to see a former President show some genuine concern for a fellow American.
Cade Foster has had better months. He’s the kicker for the University of Alabama that missed two field goals and had another one blocked a couple weeks...
Academia weighs in on Obama’s selfie moment in South Africa.
Gary J. Remal of the Boston Herald has the story.
Scholars: Obama should have known better
President Obama should have known his giddy selfie with the prime ministers of Britain and Denmark during a memorial for Nelson Mandela...
Another item to file under “Cerdo.”
The National Institutes of Health is spending over $224,000 to study how to introduce healthy child menus in an effort to alter the “ordering behavior” of kids in restaurants.
A research project awarded on Nov. 26 to San Diego State University will attempt a “restaurant-based intervention,” coupled...
Given the economy and unemployment numbers for college students it was just a matter of time.
Julianne Stanford of the College Fix reports.
Data Show Democrats No Longer Own Youth Vote
The Perfect Storm: Young people are fed up with Obama, and Republican leaders employ modern marketing techniques to reach Millennials.
For decades, Democrats...
We recently noted that California Polytechnic State University administrators launched a “cultural insensitivity and sexism” investigation over a “Colonial Bros and Nava-hos”-themed Thanksgiving fraternity-sorority party in which male students donned colonial-era outfits and female students dressed as sexy, scantily clad Native Americans.
The results of that in-depth investigation are in:
…The fraternity did...
Last month we reported that Brandeis had suspended its relationship with Al-Quds over a demonstration that included Nazi salutes. Now some members of the faculty at Brandeis are urging the school to reestablish the partnership.
Brian MacQuarrie of the Boston Globe reports.
Brandeis faculty urges renewal of ties with Palestinian school
The student rally...
“The boxes of toys are essentially a bribe… to convert to Christianity!”
Rumor has it a sequel to “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” is bring produced at a South Carolina School.
A South Carolina charter school has canceled its annual Christmas toy drive after a group of self-described humanists complained that the project violated the U.S. Constitution and accused them of bribing children to...
