If an education administrator’s dreams become reality, North Carolina is poised to have the best student-to-teacher ratio in the country.
North Carolina legislators probably won’t act on a proposal by the elected supervisor of the state’s public school system to exempt teachers from the burden of personal income taxes.
June Atkinson, North Carolina’s...
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Despite what you’ve heard about the time stopping effects of the sequester, government hiring and spending continues. Imagine that.
Libby A. Nelson of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Education Department still has vacancies in many key positions
WASHINGTON — The next few months should be a busy time for the U.S. Education Department. The admin...
Of course, NYU has plenty of money to loan now that they’re cutting lucrative deals with China.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
NYU funds lavish vacation homes for top faculty, staff
New York University has loaned millions of dollars to select faculty and administrators for them to buy vacation homes, an unprecedented...
Group angered over mass firings dictated by post-strike contract.
We recently reported that the Chicago Public School system plans is closing nearly 50 elementary schools.
A clue to why the school system’s numbers are declining can be found in this story from The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens:
Well over 500 Chicago public school teachers were unceremoniously sacked Friday afternoon. A...
Statistics show that commencement speakers are rarely conservative.
Now, the number show that when they get the rare invitation to give a graduation address, they then become the focus of “tolerant” liberal activism.
Of the Top 10 biggest controversies surrounding graduation speakers this commencement season, seven specifically targeted conservatives or business leaders, a survey...
File this story under “Nanny State gone wild”.
A series of behind-the-scenes mistakes by educators in a Florida school district led to children’s biometric information being culled without their parents’ permission, TheLedger.com reported.
In May, parents of students in the Polk County School District received a letter stating a pilot program would track...
Some college students show clearly that more classes do not automatically translate to more common sense.
The Campus Reform team recently filmed students at George Mason University (GMU) signing a petition asking President Obama to listen in on the “private conversations” of all Fox News employees and their families.
The petition, which was...
Today’s anti-gun hysteria story is brought to you by the administrators of Logan Middle School.
Zenon Evans of Reason reports.
Teen Faces Year in Jail and $500 Fine After Wearing NRA Shirt to School
Back in April, Logan Middle School in West Virginia found itself at the center of controversy when it suspended Jared...
Finally, a useful skill
Some college students make a hobby out of drinking beer but according to a new report at USA Today, some students are learning to make it too.
Devin Karambelas reports.
Craft brewing renaissance hits college campuses
Of all the places to find beer on a college campus, the classroom may not be the first...
Despite the massive push for greater gun control, some schools are taking no chances with the safety of their students and teachers.
Lauren Russell of CNN reports.
In response to Newtown shootings, some states move to put guns in classrooms
(CNN) – While most of the nation’s students...
Higher education isn’t immune to the laws of supply and demand.
Francesca Donner of the Wall Street Journal reports.
Are Humanities Degrees Doomed? Experts Weigh In.
Humanities majors at Harvard are becoming harder to find.
Students, worried about landing a job post-graduation, fear humanities degrees don’t hold the value they once did in a rapidly...
Remember when Chris Farley famously warned that you could end up living in a van down by the river? Meet Duke University grad student Ken Ilgunas.
Mandi Woodruff of Business Insider has the story.
Duke Grad Student Secretly Lived In a Van to Escape Loan Debt
By the time Ken Ilgunas was wrapping up...
Academic fraud and theft of taxpayer dollars. This story has it all.
Breitbart News reports.
Florida Educator Alters Student Records to Achieve Federal Aid
Federal officials say that Michael Gagliano, president of the Galiano Career Academy in Orlando, Florida,
In tough economic times, one campus rabbi is reaching out to save a program geared to conservative Jewish students.
Rabbi Esther Reed, Senior Associate Director of Rutgers Hillel, explains:
Yesterday, I got the news that United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) decided to close the KOACH/College Outreach program. My students at Rutgers have...
In the wake of all the recent scandals, Young Americans are becoming even more disenchanted with the nanny state.
Gabriella Hoffman is a Regional Field Coordinator at The Leadership Institute where she is tasked with identifying, recruiting, and training young conservatives on college campuses. She takes exception to some points President Obama...
As sexual identity diversity policies have been enacted, various schools have struggled with certain aspects of program implementation.
Especially in the areas related to locker-rooms and bathrooms.
It looks like a court will soon weigh in on the subject.
Maine’s highest court will soon decide which restroom Nicole Maines, a 15-year-old transgendered student,...
George Neumayr of Intercollegiate Review has a new piece in which he lambasts academia’s devotion to multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism is Mediocrity
Harvard University recently gave Oprah Winfrey an honorary doctorate, a depressingly appropriate award given that her taste in literature and vapid quality of thought trump the classics on most American campuses these days....
Campus Reform reporters have been investigating the University of Maryland’s connections to the National Security Agency.
They have posted video featuring an exchange with campus police:
University of Maryland (UMD) police on Wednesday prohibited two Campus Reform reporters from filming an alleged covert government facility where Edward Snowden is believed to have worked...
You can chalk this item up to weird news but if I lived in this community, I don’t think I’d want this man on my local school board.
Breitbart News reports.
Lifelong Democrat Saugus School Board Member: ‘I Am Not a Nazi’
Saugus, California school board member Stephen Winkler may have allegedly posted on...
Writing at Real Clear Policy, Thomas K. Lindsay points out a way to navigate the higher ed bubble and shows how some small schools are leading the way.
How to Survive the Higher-Ed Meltdown
Higher education is reeling. A recent study demonstrates that a third of colleges and universities are now financially unstable...
Many college students are social media exhibitionists.
In fact, the young generation is so versed in the new technologies that there are now degrees in the subject.
So Edward Peichel of St. John’s University a little confused over the fuss about the National Security Agency’s scanning scandal.
By now, we’re all familiar with the ...
It seems the Democratic Party won’t be satisfied until power over every aspect of the lives of Americans is centralized in Washington.
Senator Lamar Alexander provided the GOP’s weekly remarks which you can read below.
The article is by Andrew Malcolm of Investor’s Business Daily, h/t to Hot Air.
GOP: Do you realize Obama...
