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University of California (UC) San Diego has introduced a mandatory program for all new students, regardless of major: “Climate Change Education.” The graduation requirement, officially named the Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement (JTCCER) after a Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor who died in July 2022, was implemented this fall, the school announced in a press release. The initiative was “designed to ensure that undergraduates across all majors on campus are equipped to understand and address climate change,” the university said. Over 7,000 first-year students will need to complete a one-quarter course from a list approved by the UC San...

Ben Shapiro recently appeared at Oxford University and gave a masterclass on how to handle the talking points being used to ultimately prop up Hamas, wittingly or not, by those claiming to support the Palestinian position.In one striking exchange, a woman in a hijab stepped up to the podium to read off a list of accusations about what Israel has supposedly done in its attempt to take out Hamas. She quickly found that she had painted herself into a corner, though.This was a pretty epic exchange with @benshapiro at the Oxford Union."If Israel put down its guns tomorrow there would...

The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), a group that partners with dozens of Florida private schools, joined Gender Spectrum to host a June conference for school staff members to teach topics including creating gender-inclusive schools and “best practices for supporting transgender and other gender-expansive students.”

PORTLAND, Ore. — Approximately two dozen Portland Public Schools students rallied outside the district's headquarters Friday morning over its decision to make masks optional once the statewide mandate is lifted this weekend. Students protest Protest over mask mandate in Portland "I think that honestly telling people to take off their masks is really selfish to people who don't have that option," Franklin High School student Serafina Sabatini said. Starting Saturday, March 12, masking will no longer be required in indoor public places, including schools, in Oregon. This means masking will be optional in schools beginning Monday, March 14. Sabatini is...

An off-duty police officer has repeatedly washed away Black Lives Matter messages written in chalk at Hillcrest Elementary.... 463 Shares Advertisement Off-duty officer washed away Hillcrest Elementary students' BLM chalk art 463 Shares WBALUpdated: 8:23 AM EDT Jun 18, 2020 David Collins I-Team Reporter Hillcrest Elementary School student chalk display Hillcrest Elementary School student chalk display SOURCE: WBAL-TV\David Collins SIGN UP FOR BREAKING NEWS Get local stories sent straight to your inbox as news breaks. Your Email Address SUBMIT Privacy Notice CATONSVILLE, Md. — An off-duty police officer has repeatedly washed away Black Lives Matter messages written in chalk at...

Democrats beat Republicans by 30 points among millennials on the generic ballot, according to a new American Barometer survey. The poll, conducted by Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company, found that 53 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds surveyed said they would support a Democratic candidate in November's midterm elections, while 26 percent said they would support a Republican candidate

ounger Americans have long told pollsters that they plan to vote and they are set to make good on that promise this fall in historic numbers. And when they do, it will be a wave favoring the Democrats, according to a new survey of voters aged 18-29 from Harvard University’s Institute of Politics being released Tuesday. The survey found that 53 percent probably or definitely will be voting. And of those most likely to vote, 55 percent lean Democratic and 21 percent Republican.

South Carolina's largest school district says it's going to reprimand several hundred students who participated in a national walkout to protest gun violence at schools. Greenville County Schools spokeswoman Beth Brotherton said Wednesday that students who participated in the walkout will be cited for cutting class. She said that school records show that about 530 students participated at about a dozen high schools.

Canvassing the craven and deviant (which is to say, left-oriented, mainstream) response to the Boston Marathon bombing among media and intellectual elites — yes, the Tsarnaev brothers killed and mutilated but they were displaced, troubled, resentful of Western domination, etc. — Bruce Bawer offers an astute diagnosis. The progressive multiculturalism to which these elites adhere, he writes, is both decadent and jejune, enabling them to remain mental and emotional children who preen themselves on their kindness. “What made multiculturalism attractive to these people,” Bawer continues, “is that it’s tailor-made for spoiled, narcissistic grown children who don’t want to have adult...

Santorum booed for his positions on same-sex marriage, legal potBy Alicia M. Cohn - 01/05/12 06:21 PM ET Amid boos and occasional cheers, Rick Santorum defended his views on same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana, as he was peppered with questions by a crowd of college students in New Hampshire on Thursday. The conservative candidate did not sidestep a challenge issued by several members of the crowd on the subject, but instead asked students to break down their argument so he could reply at length. “Don’t you have to make the positive argument why the law should be changed?” he asked....

From Russellville Middle School in Arkansas.The title tells the basic story. A high school yearbook that lists the five worst people: 1.)Adolph Hitler: Ok, that makes sense.No need to explain. 2.)Osama Bin Laden:The modern super villain.Evil guy,but personally I think Stalin would be second to Hitler. 3.)Charles Manson: Ok,really nasty guy.To this day he's Roman Polanski's pedophilia defense. Mao anyone? Genghiz Khan? Hey, this is a high school. NUMBERS 4 and 5? Drumroll please........... George W Bush and Dick Cheney!!!!!!!Not Stalin,or Mao,or Saddam.Not Genghiz,or the Caesars. Just Bush and Cheney. Why you may ask is such a list in a...

Took some pictures of the CA Capital Takeover and there were arrests. BTW....there is also a picture of Blair Underwood in the gallery. He just happened to be at the Capital and I am pretty sure is unrelated to the protest.

Middle-schoolers get up-close lessons on spillBy Jessica Bock ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 05/12/2010 Amid one of the nation's worst oil spills, eighth-graders at Maplewood Richmond Heights Middle School are off the coast of Alabama this week studying ecology near the Gulf of Mexico. Although the students had not seen any oil as of Tuesday, Dauphin Island is bustling with media, scientists and environmental workers who are building barriers to protect the area and preparing for the worst, said Dave Grossman, technology coordinator at the middle school. "We saw the impact right away. Dauphin Island is usually quiet, but it's been one...

Most at NYU say their vote has a price By: Lily Quateman - Washington Square News November 14, 2007 07:29 PM EST Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do. That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found. Only 20 percent said they'd exchange their vote for an iPod touch. But 66 percent said they'd forfeit their vote for a free ride to NYU. And half said they'd give...

President Bush got a lesson from a group of recent high school graduates. They were Presidential Scholars, a program designed "to recognize and provide leadership development experiences for some of America's most outstanding graduating high school seniors." The 141 Presidential Scholars were being honored at the White House. One of them, Mari Oye, from Wellesley, Mass., describes what happened: "The president walked in and gave us a short speech, saying that as we went on into our careers, it was important to treat others as we would like to be treated. And he told us that we would have to...

Psychology Today Rips Conservatives While Praising Liberals Posted by Noel Sheppard on January 19, 2007 - 10:07. This one is really waaaay too funny, and will definitely require all drinking vessels, flammables, and sharp objects be safely stowed. Psychology Today magazine has a long study published in its January/February issue about the differing mindsets and personalities of conservatives and liberals. Who do you think the report praised, and who did it slam? Which ideological group was perceived as smarter, and which was considered more insecure?If you’re having a hard time answering these questions, read this (emphasis mine throughout). However, please...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Generation Next is more optimistic, more tolerant and more likely a Democratic voter than its predecessor, according to a new study. The group's tilt toward the Democratic Party is far different from the previous younger generation, known as Generation X, who grew up during the Reagan administration of the 1980s and was more inclined to support Republicans. ``This portends a significant political impact as they get more engaged,'' said Scott Keeter, a researcher from the Pew Research Center. ``If they carry their party leanings with them, that will make a big difference.'' Forty-eight percent of young adults...

Hey, you moms and dads out there showing off the latest photos of your kids and bragging about their recent achievements. You might not want to be quite so smug: Parents are more depressed than adults without kids. Despite the joys you think parenthood may bring, a study published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior reports that having children does not make you happier.

Protesters disrupted his play by shouting down the actors, blocking the aisles, rushing the stage and threatening the audience, and student playwright Chris Lee expected Washington State University officials to take action. They did, but not quite in the way he expected. After an inquiry, the university's Center for Human Rights concluded that the student hecklers had engaged in an appropriate expression of free speech after being provoked by the play "Passion of the Musical." University President V. Lane Rawlins agreed, telling a faculty member in an e-mail that the protesters had "exercised their rights of free speech in a...

Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” True enough. Depicting history is, and always has been, a collective enterprise. But our modern, relativistic culture has made separating fact from fancy increasingly difficult, as political correctness often trumps truth. As a result, we are rewriting history. Nowhere is this more evident than in American classrooms, where our children’s history lessons change with the political winds. Anti-bias guidelines and fears of offending special-interest groups permeate history textbooks, smudging out historical accuracy. Our Founding Fathers are now referred to as androgynous “framers.”...