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An exclusive Los Angeles private academy’s attempt to show its support for Black Lives Matter on Instagram blew up in its face, when they quickly got deluged with responses claiming it is a racist institution. The Brentwood School, which boasts Hollywood stars like Jonah Hill and Adam Levine as graduates, had its social media quickly …
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Dunkin’, a unit of Dunkin’ Brands Group, said on Monday its franchisees are seeking to hire up to 25,000 workers as it prepares for higher demand, with US states reopening after months-long lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin’, which has about 90 percent of its restaurants open, said new …
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It’s typically sunny days on “Sesame Street,” but the long-running PBS program will take on a serious theme this Saturday. “Sesame Street” and CNN will host a 60-minute town hall special for children and families at 10 a.m. to discuss racism. Called “Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism,” and airing in response to the death …
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The U.S. Department of Education has concluded that Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports programs is a violation of Title IX anti-discrimination rules. The department’s Office of Civil Rights determined that Connecticut’s policy “denied female student-athletes athletic benefits and opportunities, including advancing to the finals in events, higher level competitions, …
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The Trump administration is planning to expel several thousand Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to Chinese universities affiliated with that country’s military, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The proposed expulsion would affect roughly 3,000 individuals, a small percentage of the 360,000 Chinese students currently in the U.S. American institutions may push …
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The University of California is hurting the students it’s trying to help by eliminating objective measures for admissions. On Thursday, the regents of the University of California voted to phase out the SAT and ACT tests as a requirement for admission across all nine of its undergraduate campuses, which make up one of the country’s …
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We’ve entered a new era, the Imagination Age, so why are we still schooling kids like we did in the 19th Century? Our current compulsory schooling model was created at the dawn of the Industrial Age. As factories replaced farm work and production moved swiftly outside of homes and into the larger marketplace, 19th century …
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The Department of Education has discovered at least $6 billion in unreported donations to American universities from adversarial foreign nations, Townhall reported on Friday. The DoE revealed its updates in a May 19 letter to Congress and a subsequent briefing to several ranking House Republicans who are conducting an investigation into the foreign funding of U.S. …
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By continuing along with this standardized type of schooling, we are putting millions at a disadvantage. The public education system we currently know has been around for more than 150 years. However, the basic schooling model remains the same. Roughly 20 to 30 kids of the same age are stuffed into a classroom and taught …
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An Australian university will hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider the expulsion of a student after he protested against the Chinese Communist Party. Drew Pavlou, 20, is a philosophy major at the University of Queensland, whose website states that it possesses “more student mobility, research collaborations, and commercialization partnerships with China than with almost …
An exclusive Los Angeles private academy’s attempt to show its support for Black Lives Matter on Instagram blew up in its face, when they quickly got deluged with responses claiming it is a racist institution. The Brentwood School, which boasts Hollywood stars like Jonah Hill and Adam Levine as graduates, had its social media quickly …
