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Half of UCLA Medical School Graduates Can't Pass Basic Competency Tests and No One Dares Question It

 What happens when an elite medical school makes DEI its lodestar instead of competence? As it turns out, the answer is pretty much what you'd imagine.

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They Teach Third Graders To 'Decolonize' Themselves. They Also Advise a Prominent California Public School District.

For most kids, third grade is spent learning concepts such as fractions, long multiplication, and telling time to the nearest minute. For the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, an education consulting group, it's spent pursuing a differ

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Harvard Taps Longtime DEI Advocate To Help Pick University’s Next President

Harvard University on Monday tapped an ex-McKinsey consultant who has criticized meritocracy and published controversial research on the benefits of diversity in business to help select the university’s next president.

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UCLA Med School Requires Students To Attend Lecture Where Speaker Demands Prayer for ‘Mama Earth,’ Leads Chants of ‘Free Palestine.’

In a mandatory course on "structural racism" for first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of "Free, Free Palestine" and demanded that th

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Seattle High School Issues Handout Telling Children That Enjoying the 'Written Word' Is White Supremacy

 This story will make you miss the days when education was about actually learning skills and subjects that would help to equip children for adulthood. A Seattle high school issued a reading assignment featuring nine supposed traits of white supremacy.

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'This is Definitely Plagiarism': Harvard University President Claudine Gay Copied Entire Paragraphs From Others’ Academic Work and Claimed Them as Her Own

Harvard University president Claudine Gay plagiarized from numerous academics over the course of her academic career, at times airlifting entire paragraphs and claiming them as her own work, according to reviews by several scholars. In four papers publish

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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Owns the University?

The most recent shout-down debacle at Stanford’s law school, one of many such recent sordid episodes, prompts the question: “Who owns our universities?

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Victor Davis Hanson: What Happened to Stanford?

Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley…

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Bad Words: California Colleges Push Students To Purge ‘Harmful’ Phrases Like ‘Brown Bag Lunch’

If you’ve ever used the phrases "brown bag lunch" or "long time, no see," congratulations: You’re a racist, according to Stanford University.

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Only 4 percent of faculty donations went to Republicans in 2022

ANALYSIS: A review of 2022 donation data shows a strong tilt in favor of Democrats.

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San Francisco Middle Schools No Longer Teaching ‘Algebra 1′ | The California Report | KQED News

Parents of high-achieving students say delaying the course until high school will slow children's progress.

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Fiorina: Common Core Limits Parent Choice and Child's Chances | Truth Revolt

On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina spoke out against Common Core, saying it not only limits parental choice but also limits a child's chances in receiving the best education possible. 

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Gutfeld Savages Common Core: ‘Making The Lives Of Kids And Their Parents Hell’ [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller

'Another government experiment sinking under its unbearable complexities'

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Common Core Blockbuster: Mathematician Dr. Jim Milgram Warns Common Core Will Destroy America's Standing in Technology

During a Friday conference call sponsored by Texas-based Women on the Wall, Stanford mathematician and former member of the Common Core Validation Committee Dr. James Milgram, told listeners that if the controversial standards are not repealed, America’

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This Teachers Union President Says He Will 'Punch You in the Face' If You Oppose Common Core

Sheer insanity.  This isn't some raving drunk off the street. This is the president of one of the largest teachers unions in the United States -- a nati

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Common Core Becomes a Nightmare

Americans are waking up to how bad Common Core really is for education, but its nightmare does not go away quickly. Liberal education bureaucrats (