Education
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Trump administration announces investigation into Brown University over campus shooting
The department highlighted allegations that the university's campus surveillance and security system were not up-to-date at the time of the shooting, and that its emergency notifications about the active shooter were delayed.
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San Diego school district teaches young kids 28 sexual orientations, 9 gender identities: report
Resources taken from LGBTQ activist groups such as The Trevor Project, which tells kids about orientations such as "aeogosexual" and "queer demisexual."
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UC Berkeley, Pomona College settle discrimination cases with Jewish professor, students
“I respect and appreciate Dr. Nativ’s decision to settle this case,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons said
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Top Canadian pediatric hospital: Re-open schools with few restrictions, no masks
Children can return to school with relatively little risk, report says.
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New Jersey orders schools to teach 8th graders about 'pregnancy options,' including abortion
The information is 'most essential' for 'health and physical literacy,' the state says.
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Universities consider shortened semesters, plexiglass barriers in hopes of opening campus in fall
Closed since March, institutions are struggling to figure out if, and how, they will reopen in the fall.
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Watch: Senate hearing about going back to school safely amid COVID-19
Senate hearing will address COVID-19 and going back to school safely
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Federal guidelines for schools: Face masks, closed playgrounds, one-way hallways
Directions are not mandatory; the CDC calls them 'considerations'
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Black men protected most by Trump reforms to Obama-Biden campus sexual assault rules, experts say
Critics say there were 'parallels between the treatment of black men accused of rape during the infamous Jim Crow period and the adjudication of sexual assault cases in the current [Obama] era.'
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DeVos's new Title IX rules emphasize due process and formal mediation
The new Title IX rules and regulations have been a longtime in the works from the Secretary of Education and are the follow up to her overhaul of the Obama era policies in 2017
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Feds allocated $12.5 billion in pandemic aid for universities, but some say no thanks
Ivy League and other universities are rejecting emergency coronavirus funding while promising to pay students emergency funds out of their own pockets.
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Will shift to distance learning during campus closures reshape American education?
Overnight transition not a fair test of online instruction's potential, some experts fear.
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Trump administration announces initiative to address sexual assault in schools
Trump administration announces initiative to address rising complaints of sexual assault on K-12 students and similar misconduct