Education

A Florida teacher is facing child abuse charges after allegedly putting a three-year-old autistic student in a headlock with her legs, police said.

An elementary school teacher was arrested after allegedly dealing drugs over the phone during class in Harris County, Texas.

Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Education and its Secretary Miguel Cardona over a scholarship and career advancement program the organization says discriminates against Americans based of race.

Liz Magill, who resigned as president from the University of Pennsylvania, has found a new home at Harvard. 

A group of pro-Palestinian students targeted the Hillel, the Jewish student center, in a rally at New York City’s Baruch College on Saturday — the latest sign that antisemitism is returning to college campuses this fall with a vengeance.

Pro-Palestinian students have assumed control of student government at the University of Michigan with the return to fall classes, suspending funding for student groups until the administration agrees to divest from, and boycott, Israel.

Kamala Harris blocked a deal that would have saved Corinthian College, interrupting the education of 16,000 students.

Some schools around Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are changing their start dates amid a heat wave leaving classrooms empty as students prepare to return from vacation.

About 150 Boston area school kids were told to find their own way to school, as the state of Massachusetts diverts funding for buses to be used for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s migrants.

Democrat vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) was caught inflating his background and making it seem like Harvard University was behind a teaching program in China in which he participated, according to a recent report.

Police say a first-grade teacher in Maryland has been arrested in connection to an overdose death involving fentanyl in Washington, DC.

Experts have been sounding the alarm in the wake of college prices approaching $100,000 per year when counting fees.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz bashed rival Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) for attending Yale — after Walz followed a long list of Yale- and Ivy-League-educated speakers at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday.

The University of Kentucky is the latest school to close its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices, joining public colleges in Texas, Florida, and Alabama in eliminating programs that encourage discrimination based on race and sex.

Northwestern University announced that all students and faculty would receive “mandatory trainings on antisemitism” as well as “other forms of hate.”

Welsh libraries have reportedly been told not to meet in “racist” buildings amid taxpayer-subsidised “critical whiteness studies” training.

The disgraced Wisconsin teacher arrested in May for allegedly “making out” with a fifth-grader could get a life sentence if convicted. 

Four Michigan men, including a high school teacher, have been arrested after they were caught in a sting operation allegedly sending explicit images to or soliciting people they thought were underage girls online.

Almost one-third of Chicago’s well-paid public-school teachers keep their kids out of the Chicago Public School System, a study finds.

As ChatGPT and other generative AI tools gain popularity, their impact on education has become increasingly evident, with students turning to these technologies for assistance with their assignments. One category of conversation related to cheating, “homework help,” has emerged as one of the most common type of queries from consumers.

Harris tried to walk back her support for prosecuting truancy when she last ran for president in 2019; Democrats have conveniently forgotten her record.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) celebrated the news of Columbia University President Minouche Shafik stepping down from her role months after intense anti-Israel demonstrations on campus.

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigned Wednesday after she failed to prevent radical anti-Israel and antisemitic “encampments” on campus that led eventually to the violent occupation of a university building.

U.S. Judge Mark C. Scarsi slammed the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Tuesday in a preliminary injunction ordering it to make sure Jewish students can access campus activities — or else cancel all activities.

The 45th president pointed out that U.S. education scores are tumbling compared to other developed countries, even though the United States spends “more per pupil than any other country in the world.” 

The Boston Globe has published an exceedingly sympathetic profile Sunday of a pro-Palestinian “summer camp” in western Massachusetts, where participants share ideas about communism and talk about building a better society.

Rep. Erin Houchin (R-Ind.) spoke to Breitbart News Saturday about the Department of Education’s late rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, and how it was “another example” of the “Biden-Harris administration blunders.”

A former Illinois public school food service director has been sentenced to nine years in prison for pulling off a $1.5 million chicken wing heist, prosecutors said.

A pair of Alabama high school football coaches have stepped down from their jobs after videos of team staffers behaving inappropriately with players began circulating online.

A slight majority of Americans believe students should be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning at school.

A 52-year-old Connecticut middle school teacher has been charged for allegedly sexually grooming a 14-year-old student more than 15 years ago.

A Washington Post columnist on Tuesday appeared to agree with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) move to put tampons in boys’ restrooms, suggesting boys who give the menstrual products to girls would be more popular.

The Florida teen who savagely beat a teacher over a Nintendo Switch in February 2023 has been sentenced to five years in prison.

The AI obsession in Silicon Valley has reached new heights, with parents sending children as young as five to summer camps focused on artificial intelligence and robotics.