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A 17-year-old boy is in custody and police are searching for three other suspects after masked gunmen opened fire at a school bus with children on board in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, officials announced Friday. Jaki White-Marshall, 17, of Coatesville, was arrested and charged as an adult with aggravated assault and other offenses. The incident occurred on Thursday, Oct. 10, around 2:30 p.m

I am perplexed why 50% or more Americans are clinically retarded. From voting for Obama to Biden to the current resident moron Kamala Harris. Some has postulated our Dewey influenced educational system. Some have said the removal of prayer and morality in our schools. Some have said the role of the media after the opinionated Vietnam era. I believe there was a time with candidates and presidents like Adlai Stevenson, Harry S Truman and JFK where democratic policies were sane and patriotic. What say you about why the party has devolved to a party of demonic stupidity and America hating?

DEI is ‘compatible with academic freedom,’ AAUP says.. American Association of University Professors condemns ‘attacks on DEI’ and defends ‘diversity goals’ in a new statement Diversity, equity, and inclusion statements and hiring practices at universities are “compatible with academic freedom,” the American Association of University Professors said in a statement Wednesday. “This committee rejects the notion that the use of DEI criteria for faculty evaluation is categorically incompatible with academic freedom,” the statement, drafted by the subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, reads. The left-leaning faculty union said DEI practices do not impose political or...

The comments were made by Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student-athlete support who works in the university's Health Sport and Exercise Sciences department. professor at the University of Kansas has been put on administrative leave after telling students during a recent lecture that men who do not vote for a female president should be lined up and shot. The comments were made by Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student-athlete support who works in the university's Health Sport and Exercise Sciences department, according to KU's faculty directory. A video of the incident posted to social media has...

You’re letting this be said in your classrooms? That men who won’t vote for Kamala Harris for President should be lined up and shot?? ⁦

The people of Chicago know about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s panic attacks. He just can’t handle the job. And now the people of his city, including the property taxpayers, are about to have a series of panic attacks all their own. He’s unleashed two curses to hound them and haunt them. They’re already suffering from violent crime and he’s also killing the public schools that is turning out yet another generation of young people without future, without hope. The Chicago Public Schools can’t educate 300,000 students, most of whom are black and brown, all of whom are poor. They can’t read...

SPRING, Texas (KHOU) - Parents of preschoolers in Texas say they are shocked after finding out their children were given sleep aids by their teachers. They said their children told them they were given “sleepy stickers” that would make them fall asleep. The patches in question are sleep aids containing melatonin, among other ingredients, and intended for adults. One of the children at the school, 4-year-old Layne Luviano, broke the case open in September when she snuck one of the stickers out of the classroom. “She kind of pulled up her little shorts and said, ‘Mom, look this is my...

One often hears liberal-arts professors, as well as college and K-12 administrators, advocating two ideas about academics in America: (a) the importance of a broad, well-rounded, liberal-arts education and (b) the equating of that education solely with the head, not the heart. In 1931, John Dewey chaired a national curriculum conference that declared the liberal arts important for “the organization, transmission, extension and application of knowledge” (emphasis added). That concept has given us the educational system we have today, and it is not what was promised. A “Well-Rounded” Education Don’t misunderstand my point; there is great value in a broad,...

Big City Coffee owner Sarah Fendley celebrates a victory she hopes will set a First Amendment precedent despite Boise State’s plans to appeal Coffee shop owner Sarah Fendley, who argued Boise State University forced her business off campus due to her public support for law enforcement, shared with The College Fix her reaction to the trial’s $4 million verdict and her message to those in similar situations. Reflecting on the nine-day trial, Fendley (pictured) told The Fix in a phone interview she was “terrified that the truth wasn’t going to be enough.” The school “made sure every day to fill...

For a long time, America’s leftists denied that they were, in fact, implementing communism. Now, though, they’re open about their actions and goals. Longtime AT readers will remember my viral 2008 article: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis. That article described the Cloward-Piven Crisis strategy that Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, two radical Columbia University professors, dreamed up. Their first target was the welfare system. They hoped that signing up every person eligible for every public service would overwhelm the system and cause its collapse. In the ashes, they would then suggest the solution: a guaranteed annual...

About 150 students and supporters protested on the one-year anniversary of the start of Israel's war in Gaza Monday on the campus of UC Santa Cruz, criticizing the university's previous crackdowns on student protest.

Hundreds of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists gathered at Columbia University on Monday to celebrate the anniversary of the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, shouting “Resistance is glorious! We will be victorious!” Some carried a banner reading: “We Will Honor All Our Martyrs,” incorporating a term that terrorists have used to describe their members, whether carrying out suicide bombings against Israeli civilians or being killed in battle. It was not clear how many of the participants were students, and how many were from beyond the campus itself. As Breitbart News had reported, students at Columbia and other universities in New York...

Antisemitism is a big problem for blue states where protesters celebrate 'death to Israel'October 7th was the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas invaded Israel, murdering people at random, raping, destroying homes and kidnapping people back to Gaza. There are more than 100 still held hostage, including four Americans. Raw and hurting, American Jews watched the streets of U.S. cities fill up with crowds. The people in the streets weren’t marching to stand with the slaughtered and the raped. They were gleeful, exuberant and there were many of them. In New York’s Times Square, hundreds of...

Many generations of young Americans have learned in school under the grading system. We took tests in subjects and would find out how well we had done when the instructor returned them, often with red marks to show where we’d made mistakes. The instructor would go over the tests, often spending extra time on the questions that had given students the most trouble. Then we would move on to new material, followed by another test. At the end of the class, we’d receive an overall grade to indicate how well we had done—an A for excellent work, a B for...

Biden-Harris administration officials created a plan to use a letter from a third party source as a “pretext for federal action,” and stakeholders and officials discussed federal responses to school board protests, according to a new joint report from the America First Legal Foundation (AFL) and Parents Defending Education (PDE).

Several university professors expressed concerns to the Atlantic about students who come to college unable to read full-length books. Assistant editor Rose Horowitch spoke to several teachers from elite schools like Columbia, Georgetown and Stanford, who each described the phenomenon of students being overwhelmed by the prospect of reading entire books. Columbia University humanities professor Nicholas Dames described feeling “bewildered” when a first-year student told him that she had never been required to read a full book at her public high school. “My jaw dropped,” Dames said. Some professors do find a few students up to the task, but described...

Tenure shields faculty members that promote harmful ideologies and fosters unaccountability, contributing to societal problems and declining trust in higher education.California Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a law banning legacy and donor considerations in admissions at all private colleges and universities in the state. California is the fifth state to do so, following Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia. Newsom praised the law, saying, “The California Dream shouldn’t be accessible to just a lucky few.” According to the Stanford Daily, 13.6% of admits to Stanford University in 2023 were children of alumni or donors. Inside Higher Ed reports that it was...

The groups holding these events are quite openly and publicly telling you who they are and what they believe, and that's important information to have.At various universities around the country, Students for Justice in Palestine and other pro-Hamas groups are holding events on October 7. Some of these events celebrate Palestinian "resistance," while others, throwing in a blood libel for good measure, commemorate a non-existent genocide of Palestinians by Israel since the war in Gaza began. Let's recall what happened on October 7, 2023. Thousands of Hamas terrorists, followed by "civilian" hangers-on, attacked border towns in southern Israel along with...

A “social justice academy” run by a California school district teaches elementary school kids to disavow “whiteness” and embrace transgender ideology, lesson plans shared with The Daily Wire show. Every summer since 2021, the New Haven Unified School District in San Francisco has trained rising 3rd-6th graders in leftist gender and racial politics during its annual “social justice academy.” Specific details about the academy’s curriculum were revealed in documents recently obtained from the school by Parents Defending Education through a public records request. “Scholars will define and critically think about Social Justice, identify social injustices in the community, and create...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth ISD will have to pay more than $500,000 to buy out outgoing Superintendent Dr. Angelica Ramsey. The board voted 8-1 to accept Ramsey's resignation on Sept. 24, and her resignation went into effect Tuesday. As a part of the resignation agreement between Ramsey and the district, Fort Worth ISD will pay her two installments of $247,961.58, the first of which will be paid out this week.