education
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Betsy DeVos to Pull Back Civil Rights Protections for Black Students Under the Guise of 'Safety'
Betsy DeVos continues her methodical dismantling of civil rights protections for vulnerable students, this time setting her sights on Obama-era guidelines put in place to protect black students from being disproportionately disciplined at school. As the Washington Post reports, a school safety commission formed shortly after February’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., is expected to…
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Louisiana School Co-founder Accused of Making Student Eat Rat Feces, Stepping on Another Student’s Face
The horrifying story of T.M. Landry College Preparatory School is getting clearer and bleaker as more details of abuse come to light during a state police investigation. According to the New York Times, which broke the original story, Louisiana State Police have been looking more closely at abusive behavior that seemingly ran rampant at the…
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Virginia College, Other For-Profit Institutions, Abruptly Close Campuses Across the Country
Thousands of students furthering their education at for-profit institutions discovered on Wednesday their college was shutting down. According to the Associated Press, the Education Corporation of America, which operates 75 campus chains across the country, including Virginia College, Brightwood College, Brightwood Career Institute, Ecotech Institute, and the Golf Academy of America, suddenly announced it would…
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Confederate Statue 'Silent Sam' Could Return to UNC Chapel Hill but Protesters Have Other Plans
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hell-bent on having a Confederate statue on campus. Unfortunately for them, 26-year-old graduate student Maya Little is equally as committed to stopping them. As such, according to NPR, she was arrested, charged with inciting a riot and assaulting a police officer after spearheading a rally against…
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‘It Was Like Building a House on Water’: Louisiana School Behind Viral College Acceptance Videos Steeped in Controversy
If it seems too good to be true, it just might be. But I have to admit: This one really hurts. You may remember the videos—a black high school student opening a college acceptance message, surrounded by peers; a flurry of smiles, congratulations and earnest elation. Harvard, Stanford, Wesleyan and more—the acceptances just kept rolling…
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School Says Student Who Wore KKK Uniform to Class Was Not Trying to Be Racist
A Missouri school has suspended the teacher of a student who wore a Ku Klux Klan outfit to class but insists that the student was not acting “in a discriminatory way” because it was part of a group project. On Nov. 9, an unnamed student at Poplar Bluff High School came to school dressed in…
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Schools Ban ‘Memorial Attire,’ Showing More Interest in Policing Black Students Than Teaching Them
Students at a Jacksonville, Fla., high school say they’ve been banned from wearing “memorial attire”—that is, clothes or jewelry honoring a deceased love one—because local officials believe the commemorations are tied to “gang activity.” According to News4Jax, students at Robert E. Lee High School (of course) were reminded on Wednesday that they couldn’t wear anything…
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This Is the Police Interaction Video Texas Students Must Watch to Graduate High School
In an effort to repair trust between Texas citizens and law enforcement, all high school students in the state must take a class and watch a 16-minute training video that guides them on how to behave during a traffic stop. The course, which also aims to reduce tragic interactions between the police and citizens, is…
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Colleges Promised to Hire More Black Professors, but So Far It’s Been Nothing But Talk
Robert Palmer knows how uncomfortable it can feel to be a black professor at a predominantly white college. He recalls speaking with a white student he was advising at the public Binghamton University in upstate New York, where just 4 percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, according to federal figures. “He comes out…
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High School Idiots Spell Out Racial, Homophobic Slurs During Class Photo Session
It never fails. Every year, high school students gather for class photos. And every year, at some high school, somewhere, some conglomeration of assholes lines up to do something stupid, offensive and racist. This time it’s at Escondido High School in Southern California, where students were given T-shirts with letters on them to spell out…