New York Times podcast argues ‘white parents’ main problem with public education system
Why is the public education system failing students of color? A new podcast from The New York Times claims to have the answer — “white parents.”
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New York Times spun ‘fictional tale’ about Liberty University spreading COVID, libel lawsuit says
A New York Times reporter “made up” the purported facts in an article about Liberty University endangering its community by reopening amid COVID-19 this spring, according to a $10 million defamation lawsuit against The New York Times Company by the Christian school.
University of Georgia system mandates everyone on all 26 campuses wear masks
The massive University of Georgia system recently announced that it will require everyone on campus to wear masks when indoors.
Republican attorneys general argue Trump’s Title IX rules follow the law better than Obama’s
Responding to a lawsuit by several state Democratic attorneys general, nearly as many of their Republican counterparts are coming to the defense of the Department of Education’s new Title IX rules.
University of Texas ‘increased its reliance on race’ after Supreme Court admissions ruling, lawsuit says
Students for Fair Admissions is hoping the third time’s the charm.
College students value job-skills training over ‘elite education’: survey
A majority of respondents to a recent survey believe that higher education is headed in the “wrong direction” and would prefer a greater emphasis on a value-driven vocational education.
Scholars target ‘problematic’ common animal names: slavemaker ant, gypsy moth, rape bug and dozens more
These are just three common English names listed in a spreadsheet of 60 plants and animals that have been recently deemed by some academics to have “problematic” monikers.
Fordham U. sued by Chinese immigrant student it punished for posting pro-freedom message
A Chinese immigrant student has sued Fordham University after it punished him for posting an Instagram photo meant to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China.
Economics professor barred from teaching class critical of Marxism to student body
‘If faculty want to preach that Marxism is a triumph of human thought, so be it. If other faculty want to argue that actually it was a disaster, and a crime against humanity, this view should no longer be fanatically censored’
Provost reprimanded for using word ‘mantra,’ cited as biased against Buddhists
In November of last year, University of Washington Provost Mark Richards sent a campuswide email to rally students and faculty to support his mission.
