Minnesota Lawsuit Combines Transgender Student, Twerking, Title IX
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A public high school in Minnesota has found itself in the center of a lawsuit claiming that it ignored accounts of a transgender student twerking and grinding, among other things, in the girls’ locker room. In all, 11 families are being represented in the federal lawsuit by Alliance Defending Freedom, which […]
Texas Principal Blames Boys’ Low Grades on Girls’ Clothing
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) One high school administrator in Fort Bend County, Texas is arguing that the tight clothing worn by female students distracts male students enough to cause them to receive lesser grades. Clements High School assistant principal Phil Morgante requested that female students stop wearing crop tops or tight clothing at a school assembly held […]
UK’s May Proposes More Grammar Schools, Meritocracy
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May said that the nation’s education system has “selection by house price,” adding that she intends to lift the ban on new grammar schools among a number of policy measures meant to broaden access to high-quality education. May said that she plans to create a “21st century […]
UK Children Adopting Sedentary Lifestyles as Obesity Blooms
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Early childhood experts at Loughborough University’s School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences tested 45 Foundation Stage children attending two different schools and found that more children were experiencing difficulties with coordination and balance than were formerly estimated — and the problems were affecting their ability to learn. The Early Years […]
Ohio Turns to Old Rules to Evaluate Charter Schools
(Photo: Public Domain, Creative Commons) Despite a delay made to the new process for the evaluation of charter school sponsors in Ohio, the state department of education has announced plans to push through with the use of the evaluations next month by way of an older process it says is just as tough. Last year, […]
Georgetown to Research, Give Admission Preference to Slave Descendants
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Georgetown University has announced it will be giving preference in the admissions process to descendants of slaves that had been owned by the Maryland Jesuits as a way to atone for profiting from those sales. Georgetown president John DeGioia made the announcement, adding that the school would be working to identify […]
Texas Textbook Causes Controversy Over Errors, Stereotypes
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A group of Texas historians and teachers are calling a textbook focusing on Mexican-American heritage “blatantly racist” and full of errors as they argue that it should not be allowed to be used in schools. During a news conference in South Texas, the group said that the textbook in question, “Mexican […]
ITT Tech Campuses Close After Feds Pull Financial Aid
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) ITT Tech has closed down more than 130 campuses nationwide after the Federal government stripped the for-profit college of its eligibility for student aid. The move has left thousands of former students across the US with student loans but no degree to show for the debt. As Shahien Nasiripour writes for Bloomberg, […]
Tennessee County Uses Incentive Program to Boost Attendance
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Shelby County Schools in Tennessee have started an attendance campaign called Represent Every Day, which is a new effort to improve attendance following last year’s approach that saw little positive impact. Jennifer Pignolet writes for The Commercial Appeal that attendance last year in the district increased by under one-tenth of a percentage […]