Education
Prof Bumps Female Students' STEM Grades (Because They're Women)
Free extra credit to "encourage female students to go [in]to information sciences."
Transgender Bathroom Case Bounced by Supreme Court Starts Long Trek Back into the Spotlight
Federal court allows a Virginia student's case against school district to continue.
SUNY Binghamton Tries to Suppress Students' Flyers Because They "Offended" Other Students
[UPDATE: The university is now reported (as of Friday, May 25) to be saying that no investigation is taking place, and that the original student newspaper account saying that there was such an investigation was mistaken; but the university hadn't responded to FIRE's earlier queries about the matter, and it hadn't responded to my query before I had to put up my post.]
High School Trump Fan Sues Over School Discipline for Border Wall T-Shirt
"If people are offended by his shirt-that's their right to be offended," said the student's attorney, state Rep. Mike McLane. "But it's also his right to have his opinion."
88% of Pomona Students Think the Campus Climate Silences Them
"'Very liberal' students are nearly four times more likely than moderate and conservative students to favor prohibiting some types of speech."
High School Principal Apologizes for Prom Tickets That Say 'Party Like It's 1776'
"It was insensitive and irresponsible not to appreciate that not all communities can celebrate what life was like in 1776."
Steven Pinker Loves the Enlightenment
The Harvard psychologist splits the difference between Dr. Pangloss and Pope Francis.
10 Killed at Texas High School. Explosive Devices Found at Campus.
According to law enforcement, most of the dead are students. Two suspects are in custody.
Georgetown Students Host Community Dialogue on Racism, Ask White Allies Not to Attend
"For the safety of students of color"
Fight Hate Speech with More Speech, Not Censorship: ACLU's Nadine Strossen
Nick Gillespie talks to former president of the ACLU Nadine Strossen about the difficulties and importance of free speech.
2 in 5 Top-Ranking Liberal Arts Schools Have No Full-Time Republican Professors
New study explores liberal bias of university faculty-it's worse than we thought
More Yale Students Demand Emotional Support Animals, Which Are Just Pets
Federal law says universities have to make "reasonable accommodations" for students who claim emotional trauma.
Police Investigating 12 Virginia Students for Sexting, Could Charge Them With Possessing Child Porn
"A felony that carries a minimum five-year sentence."
Should All Government Support for Higher Education Be Abolished? Watch the Live Debate.
Bryan Caplan vs. Edward Glaeser at the Soho Forum.
Male Student Accuses Female Student of Sexual Assault. She Says He Wanted Revenge.
Title IX creates a prisoner's dilemma: students have to file sexual misconduct complaints to avoid becoming the accused.
Fuddy-Duddy Functionaries Are Determined to Make Graduation As Joyless As Possible
School officials drag dancing graduates off stage and threaten cheering relatives with fines.
Conservative Student Accuses Liberals of 'Emotional Attacks,' Liberals File Retaliatory Complaints
A pox on all the snowflakes
'All Gov't Support of Higher Ed Should Be Abolished': Live Debate in NYC, 5/14
Soho Forum and Reason present George Mason's Bryan Caplan vs. Harvard's Edward Glaeser on whether taxpayers should fund college.
To Fight Patriarchy, Female Cornell Student Presents Thesis in Her Underwear
Does this really not violate Title IX?
Legal Group Sues University of Michigan Over Speech Code, Bias Response Team
"A bias response system has no place in America."
Why the Left Hates Betsy DeVos
The secretary of education is fighting government bureaucracy.
Stossel: Betsy DeVos Responds to Her Critics
Trump's secretary of education says she's "undeterred."
A Male Professor Told a Female Professor a Stupid Joke. Now He Faces Disciplinary Charges.
"A horrifying and chilling example of political correctness."
Reed Students Say Humanities 110 Should Not Include White or European Authors
Students at an Oregon liberal arts college launch a self-defeating crusade for a more diverse curriculum.
Students Across the Country Walk Out of School in Defense of Gun Rights
Students who support the Second Amendment "feel that they're being misrepresented by the media," says protest organizer Will Riley.
What Is the 'Intellectual Dark Web'?
"What we're really watching is a breakdown in society's capacity to reason with itself," former Evergreen State College evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein tells The Fifth Column.
Administrators at CUNY and Duke Aren't Going to Do Anything About Students Who Disrupted Events
Speakers' free speech rights threatened
25 Years of Experience in Child Care? Get a Degree or Lose Your Job, Says D.C.
A new lawsuit challenges a regulation that would take jobs away from capable day care workers, drive up costs, and limit access to early childhood education.
Ken Bone Says His Son Was Suspended from School and Questioned by Cops for Gun Range Photo
Parkland survivor and pro-gun activist Kyle Kashuv was also punished.
Charter Schools Take Unnecessary Risk With Blistering Attacks on California Gubernatorial Frontrunner
If Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom wins in November, will he punish charters for their efforts?
This Terrible Florida Sheriff Thinks Schools Should Be Arresting More Kids for Dumb Reasons to Stop Shootings
Mike Chitwood arrests 11-year-olds and then complains that officials aren't calling them more.
College Official on Why We Must Believe Alleged Crime Victims: It May Not Be the Truth, 'But It Is That Person's Truth'
"Let's believe what that person said."
Penn State Lets Students Keep Their Scuba Club, But Only After They Swear Never to Host Scuba Trips Again
Club leader tells Reason, "We have an impeccable safety track record."
Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside
"Student safety in any activity is our primary focus."
The Hidden Legacy of Columbine: Ignorance About School Violence
On another National School Walkout day, 57 percent of teens are worried about dying in a school shooting. They shouldn't be.
Duke Students Who Hijacked Alumni Event: Punishing Us Would Hurt Us Mentally
Activists who stormed the stage were shocked when alumni in the audience dared to heckle them.
Ohio State University Wants to Expel a Woman for Nonconsensual Group Sex
But a judge thinks her due process rights were violated, since her accusers didn't even show up to the campus tribunal.
College Republicans Get In Huge Trouble for Posting 'I.C.E. I.C.E. Baby' Signs
But dumb, offensive speech still isn't violence.
