Education
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University of Florida eliminates all DEI positions
Under DeSantis's leadership, Florida has approved a litany of reforms to the state's education system largely aimed at eliminating content perceived to be harmful to minors.
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Law school accreditor trying to circumvent SCOTUS with proposed admissions rules: law professors
"Underrepresented groups" become "all persons" but require targeting of 14 "identity characteristics," and schools can't cite SCOTUS to get out of complying, working group says. Congress should revoke ABA's "near-monopoly," prof says.
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Oklahoma nonbinary student 'did not die as a result of trauma' after bathroom fight, police say
"The official autopsy report will be available at a later date," police said.
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Dr. Ben Carson says US education system taken over by 'radicals' pushing leftist ideology
He said that virtually every major institution has become hostile towards conservatives and Christians.
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Yale reinstitutes standardized test requirement, says test-optional policies hurt some students
Yale is now instituting what it calls a "Text-Flexible Policy" that will allow applicants to choose between four different tests to submit scores.
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Top economist says tuition costs will rise as a result of Biden's student loan forgiveness
Sorens said that those who didn't go to college will be harmed by the student debt cancelations.
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Biden proposal for boys in girls' sports breaks UN obligations, rapporteur says, as injuries climb
When males can "strike at female athletes on a playing field," the "toleration of such behaviour off the pitch" is likely to follow, UN sex violence expert says. Transgender players in girls' swimming, volleyball, basketball cause outcry.
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Harvard interim president pledges review after faculty and student groups post antisemitic cartoon
The cartoon featured a black man and an Arab man hanging from nooses held by a hand marked with a Star of David and a dollar sign.
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Harvard Faculty group posts cartoon featuring wealthy Jewish person hanging black and Arab men
All Harvard groups that shared the image apologized and acknowledged that the cartoon featured "antisemitic tropes."
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School district allows LGBTQ lesson opt-outs after legal threat by Muslim parents
White lesbian board member scolded black Muslim women for not showing "solidarity." Federal appeals court could rule on similar suburban D.C. case "any day."
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College Board settles with New York over alleged sale of students' personal data
The College Board administers the SATs, the PSATs, and AP exams.
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Columbia Law rejects student group fighting antisemitism under State Department-adopted definition
Of the nine groups that have asked the Columbia Law School Student Senate for recognition this year, Law Students Against Antisemitism is the only one that has been denied, a senator said.
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Rhode Island threatens parents objecting to 'inadvertent' rules for resuming school mask mandate
Department of Health lawyer blames "clerical mistake" for proposed regulations that violate settlement with parents who sued.