LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has publicly admitted its mistakes in trying to reform schools. The failure of a number of its education initiatives just underscores the fact that the foundation doesn’t really have a clue as to what makes for good schools. The lesson may just be that they…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Professionally, Peter Gray is known for his prominent book on psychology and for his professorship at Boston College. To the general public, however, Gray is perhaps best known for his book Free to Learn, which argues that the institutional nature of schooling is killing the natural learning ability of our…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Via the BBC: “A teacher is facing disciplinary action at his school after he referred to a transgender pupil as a girl, although the student identifies as a boy. Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian pastor from Oxford, admitted he said “Well done girls” when addressing a group including the student. He…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Anders Hagstrom on September 19, 2017 The Georgia Tech student shot by police Saturday wrote three suicide notes in his dorm room before summoning police and repeatedly asking them to shoot him, investigators say. Scout Schultz, 21, had a history of mental illness and was shot by police Saturday after…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock A university president in Tennessee apologized Friday for hosting black students in his home, which displayed a cotton decoration. Randy Lowry, president of Lipscomb University, apologized for showing centerpieces bearing cotton stalks while hosting black students at his home in an email sent to the school Friday and posted…
ROB SHIMSHOCK Education Reporter Conservative author and commentator Ben Shapiro discussed campus culture and political correctness in an exclusive interview with Rob Shimshock on “The Shimshock Show” Thursday, following his speech at the University of California, Berkeley. WATCH: “You need law and order in order to protect the First Amendment,” said Shapiro. “Berkeley, for a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock A high school teacher is on paid leave after administering a sex and drugs quiz ranking students according to their habits. The unidentified Utah teacher at Roy High School scored students with labels like “pure as Ivory soap and maybe a fruitcake” and “hopeless and condemned” based on…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Amber Randall Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared Chicago public schools as “Trump free zones” in an effort to reassure illegal immigrant students Tuesday morning. Emanuel told high school freshmen that they shouldn’t worry about anything in light of the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock Bisexuals are at least 400 percent more prevalent in Harvard University’s incoming class of freshmen than they are in the general population. While approximately 1.8 percent of the general United States population identifies as bisexual, 7.9 percent of Harvard’s Class of 2021 says they are bisexual. This sexual orientation disparity is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017 was met with a variety of responses by schools across the country. Some announced they would close for the day for fear that the children under their care would accidentally look at the sun and encounter eye damage. Others remained open out of fear…