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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 5, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 5, 2023 This week’s newsletter is packed with life-enhancing creations from the minds of Israeli scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators. Cell therapy to fix genetic diseases; Artificial Intelligence

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 22, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 22, 2023 Spectacular!  There is no other word to describe some of the latest incredible Israeli innovations in this week’s newsletter. Four exciting cancer treatment developments; a life-changing por

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Elder Of Ziyon - Arab states send billions to US universities. Who believes they aren't trying to influence academia?

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 8, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 8, 2023 Already in 2023 we see Israel building for a better future.  And it promises to be a healthier future for everyone, with Israeli treatments for cancer, migraine, essential tremor, burns, and dental

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Canceling History Doesn’t Erase It Or Change It

Having just finished yet another Christmas holiday it goes without saying that as we went about our festivities, a large part of those festivities; those celebrations and remembrances, were recollections of the past and people who have gone before us. Whi

"...the erasure of anything related to history – especially military warfare at a military school – is short-sighted and emotionally based; it’s stupid..."

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 25, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 25, 2022 So many Israeli innovations and activities illuminate all of our lives. In this latest positive newsletter, cancer and cystic fibrosis patients on trials of the latest Israeli treatments will hope

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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 12/20/22

CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 12/20/22 She-Inspires | “The future belongs to diversity. Not because it is fair but because it is right.” Tami Mazel Shachar, CEO at Incredibuild, doesn’t just talk the talk regarding prom

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 18, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 18, 2022   The phrase “At the double” is a particularly appropriate title this week. Not only are Israeli innovations and achievements continuing at an incredibly fast pace, but they now se

Politics | Woke Education

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.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

How to Take Better Notes for Information Retention

Educational psychologist Kenneth Kiewra has some advice to help you retain and remember more.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 20, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 20, 2022 Jews read in the Torah this week that our ancestor Abraham lived 175 years. This week’s positive Israel newsletter includes plans for both an Israeli Longevity Center and an Israeli Healthy A

Science & Technology | Cool Stuff

Kids are fast learners—this mechanism could be why | Popular Science

Differences in GABA concentrations can tell scientists more about why young learners have an advantage.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 13, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 13, 2022 In the Book of Ecclesiastes, it states that there is nothing new under the sun. While that may be strictly true, Israeli innovations are certainly making good use of the sunshine to generate pollut

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 6, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 6, 2022 In the portion of the Bible that is read in synagogues this week, Abraham and Sarah invite three strangers to share a meal with them. Thousands of years later, their descendants are busy developing

Politics | Campus Watch

Indoctrinating schoolchildren to hate Israel and Jews

Radical educators are raising up a new generation of anti-Semites.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Oct. 23, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Oct. 23, 2022 Health and Sustainability are two key themes of the Jewish festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles) that Jews just finished celebrating. They also feature heavily in my latest positive Israel newsletter. R

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Report Exposes Rot In Middle East Studies Centers, Connection to CRT

National Association of Scholars: Funding by Arab countries and Islamists combines with U.S.-subsidized radical left to fuel potent anti-Western mix.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Oct. 9, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Oct. 9, 2022 The Jewish New Year 5783 is only 2 weeks old and already Israeli ingenuity is reaching new heights of innovation and recognition.  Israeli satellite and space technology is literally “out of

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This Week’s Sanity Report for Israel New Year Sept. 25, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report for Israel New Year Sept. 25, 2022 n recent weeks newsletter readers cannot fail to have noticed that Israel has been calling out to the world to adopt the many life-changing and life-saving innovations that its citizens ha

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We Are Back: This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 19, 2022

We Are Back: This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 19, 2022 Two prominent themes in this week’s positive Israel newsletter are sustainable Israeli food technology and more life-changing innovations from the minds of Israelis. Following l

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Congressman introduces resolution urging all 50 states to include 9/11 in K-12 curriculum

Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-New York, introduced a House Resolution “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that all 50 States” include education of 9/11 in their curriculum.

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

The Best Ages for Kids to Learn to Read, Speak New Languages, and Other Skills

Parenting a new human means making sure they have all the skills they need to thrive. But that can be a stressful proposition—not least because of all the conflicting advice out there.

News | The News

D.C. Mayor Says Unvaccinated Students Are Banned From In-Person Learning Ahead Of School Year, No Alternative Provided

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday that students 12 and older must show proof of vaccination against COVID within the first 20 days of the new school year to continue learning in-person at public and private schools.

Democrats: always total and pure evil.

Politics | Gender Insanity

California Department of Education Advertises Sex Change Operations to Students

The California Department of Education prepared a resource that included multiple clinics that offer sex change surgeries.

Politics | Woke Insanity

Minnesota School District Pours Millions Into ‘Woke’ Math as Student Scores Plummet

A Minnesota school district is spending millions of dollars to racially diversify elementary school math lessons as student proficiency scores plummet.

It’s very hard to believe that all of this isn’t being done on purpose.

History | History

The Holocaust was not just another genocide

Antisemitism education in schools is not up to the job and requires deep and urgent reform

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 31, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 31, 2022 The highlights include: Tel Aviv’s new hi-tech Emergency Room is the largest in the world. All 450,000+ Israeli citizens over 75 receive free public transport. Take a ride in Haifa’s new cable

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 24, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 24, 2022 So many “historic” events in this week’s newsletter. Israeli scientists continue to develop treatments that will confine today’s killer diseases and infections to the histor

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Los Angeles public schools training teachers that 'merit,' 'individualism' rooted in 'whiteness'

Los Angeles public schools mandated all employees to undergo "implicit/unconscious bias training," which teaches that "merit" and "individualism" are rooted in whiteness.

Every teacher in America need to be fired or have a very serious performance review. The left is, literally, obliterating the next generation, and are doing it because they know how well their propaganda has worked in degrading the country up til now. I’d we don’t stop it-we are really risking the destruction of the country. Conservatives also need to stop being so cowardly and be more vocal about the left’s obvious racism.

Psychology | Psychology

14% of students quit college because of mental health challenges | Fortune

Mental health struggles prevented a significant portion of students from earning their college degree, according to a new report from Sallie Mae.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 26, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 26, 2022 While the prospect of new elections in Israel leaves things somewhat up in the air, most Israelis are not taking a breather, but are reaching new heights in their efforts to create a cleaner and h

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The Enduring Teacher Shortage Myth

“Many teachers have left the profession and gone into other work of various kinds because they could make more money. Frequently the best teachers are the ones…

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 19, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 19, 2022 Israel and Israelis were bursting with oceans of energetic ideas, activities and projects this last week. It began with Israel, Egypt and the EU signing an agreement to bring Israeli natural gas vi

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Elite NYC private schools are teaching kids that American society must be destroyed

The irony of hyper-privileged New Yorkers paying nearly $60,000 a year for their children to learn they are the undeserving beneficiaries of a broken system need not be dwelled upon here.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 12, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 12, 2022 So many Israeli innovations and activities are designed to solve critical problems. This week’s newsletter includes Israeli solutions to diagnose autoimmune diseases, treat dry eye disease, p

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 6, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 6, 2022 Israel is like a powerful magnet, attracting global demand for its innovations and assistance.  The European Union is negotiating for Israeli natural gas. Israel is partnering Greece for innovation

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 29, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 29, 2022 the highlights include: Israeli Virtual Reality can save hundreds of thousands of lives. Israeli innovation features at four major international conferences. Onwards and upwards for Israel’s susta

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How Religion, Education, Race And Media Consumption Shape Conspiracy Theory Beliefs

A new survey from the polling firm PRRI breaks down conspiracy theory acceptance by religious group, level of education, and sources of news and information, among other things.

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National School Board Association Draft Letter Asked Biden for Military to Get Involved Against Parents

School board meetings might have gotten even angrier.

Politics | Politics

Media Shows Surprise at Reports COVID Lockdowns Led to Massive Learning Loss

Now, they'll acknowledge what we as parents already knew.

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PODCAST | The Truth About The Narrative Of Disinformation

I can't begin to tell you how many times someone has asked me who they can trust when it comes to accurate information in the news. The simple answer is that you should trust no one; no newspaper, no columnist, no talking head, no politician. We live

"...how many times have you been asked who you can trust when it comes to accurate information in the news. The simple answer is that you should trust no one..."

Family & Parenting | Family & Parenting

I'm a dad who wants schools to teach kids how to read—not how to be gender fluid

Like so many other parents in America, I was fed up.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

If the Haggadah Is Right, We’ve Got Education All Wrong - How the Haggadah turns education on its head

From a child's answers, you might know something about what the child knows. From a child's question, you know who the child is.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Teacher says it’s up to adults to make the classroom welcoming to kindergarteners who identify as transgender

Kindergarteners have cell phones and are going to know about this stuff anyway.

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Public Schools Are Cesspools of Debauchery. Get Your Kids Out Now, Before It's Too Late.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned during the pandemic it’s that many parents had no idea what was going on in their kids’ schools. Oh, parents knew there was crazy stuff going...

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SUNDAY DIGEST: White House Executes Egregious Spin on Straight-Forward Statement by Biden; Putin 'Cannot Remain in Power'

White House Executes Egregious Spin on Straight-Forward Statement by Biden; Putin 'Cannot Remain in Power' President Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," as he declared the Russian invasion of Ukraine a "strategi

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Texas ELEMENTARY school hosts pride week with 'confidential' community circles

A Texas elementary school is hosting a pride week for students, complete with planned programs from social-emotional learning to teaching students about social justice.

This is sick.

Politics | Politics

California Returns To A Divisive And Highly Politicized Ethnic Studies Curriculum

California high school students will soon be required by state law to take courses in ethnic studies. The state’s Department of Education (CDE) oversaw the development of a model curriculum, one that took four drafts and was years in the making before app

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 6, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 6, 2022 The news that Israel’s Prime Minister reached out on the holy Sabbath to try to mediate the Ukraine conflict, came too late for my newsletter. However, Israelis have been reaching out all thi

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 27, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 27, 2022 While most of us may be catching our breath at this difficult time, Israel continues to breathe new life into its positive activities. In medicine this includes a portable device for lung function

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Learning to Learn

The importance of embracing desirable difficulties

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 20, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 20, 2022 Israel is truly growing up in its role as a major benefit to the world. Its relations with Arab states grows each week, with Israel’s Prime Minister arriving in Bahrain, Egypt’s Preside

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Fighting fake news in the classroom

Psychologists are increasingly incorporating debunking and digital literacy into their courses to combat misinformation and disinformation.

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CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation and Technolgy News Feb. 14, 2022

CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation and Technolgy News Feb. 14, 2022 Have tech companies gone too far with exorbitant perks to attract employees? The expensive parties, trips abroad, and other perks at tech companies are causing more and more discomfo

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 13, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 13, 2022 This week’s newsletter will hopefully give you a good sense of Israel’s positive impact on the world. Medical innovations to sense the early onset of Alzheimer’s, Covid-19, and ki

Psychology | Liberal psychosis

Following Statewide School Mask Mandate Suspension, Illinois Teachers Begin Harassing and Threatening Students - Teachers Union Vows Maskless Children "Will Be Dealt With"

On Friday, central Illinois Judge Raylene Grischow granted a temporary restraining order to temporarily suspend the Illinois Department of Public Health and the state board of education’s requirements for masks, vaccines, and weekly coronavirus testing

The "teachers" taking out their psychosis on the kids are child abusers. Parents need to press charges.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 7, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 7, 2022 This week’s positive newsletter is full of Israel’s work to sustain the planet. Treatments to combat diseases such as ALS and cancer (appropriate for World Cancer Day) plus innovations t

Family & Parenting | Kid's

Unions Fight to Keep Parents From Finding Out What Being Taught – PJ Media

Across the country in at least a dozen states, Democrats are blocking bills that would require curriculum transparency in public schools

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PODCAST: Putin's Personal Pandemic on Ukraine...and COVID, Too

If anyone actually thought the Biden administration was serious in their response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's eventual taking of Ukraine I have some Chinese real estate stock to sell you. Then, if you are Ukraine your $8+ Billion investment

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 30, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 30, 2022 Things are really looking up in Israel.  This week’s newsletter includes medical technology to diagnose brain disease by looking in the eye. And the latest statistics show that more Israelis

Politics | Politics

Parents wise up about Critical Race Theory

NBC News published an exposé on how parents, citizens and state lawmakers are demanding more transparency and seeking an end to the teaching of critical race theory and extreme gender ideology in public schools.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Twenty-one days to brainwash your child

The parents of Farmington Hills, Michigan (a suburb 25 miles outside of downtown Detroit), were none too pleased to discover recently that their school board was forcing students to take a “21-Day Equity Challenge” as part of the district’s "diversity, eq

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 16, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 16, 2022 These are very exciting times, as Israeli innovations are literally lifting-off. Dozens of Israeli children watched eight of their school-built nano-satellites being launched into space, and there

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 9, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 9, 2022 Israel has just re-opened its gates to overseas visitors who can once again experience the Start-up / Scale-up Nation at first hand. Those who are not yet ready to travel can read here about the 

Politics | Politics

California’s Riverside School District Lies About Teaching Critical Race Theory

Leadership at Riverside Unified School District claimed that CRT was not taught in the district despite hiring a firm to push the theory.

This is just one more disgrace by the terrible people who run California.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Schools Got $130B To Re-Open. Some Of It Went To CRT. Now Many Are Closed.

Here's how states actually spent money that was supposed to allow them to deal with COVID.

Politics | Politics

Dumbing Down Education Key to Dismantling America: Alex Newman

There is a global effort coming from the United Nations and from China to build a single world system.

Agreed 100%....and agreed from personal experience...No university these days - no matter what its religious affiliation or how academically excellent it perceives itself to be allows a professor to exercise the necessary discipline required in the intellectual pursuit of education. All that matters is looks and perception.

Moreover all education has become simply an marxist/communist/socialist education - with the only difference in institutions being where they fall on the spectrum (i.e. how extreme).

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

In The Name Of Equity, Virginia County Wants To Ban Homework Grades And Other Standards

Arlington County, Virginia, recently introduced a proposal for a new grading system, based on the idea of equity, that would allow an unlimited number of retakes on assignments, ban extra credit, and would block grading on homework assignments, Fox News reported on Thursday.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Hannah-Jones: Parents Shouldn’t Decide what’s Being Taught In Schools — ‘Leave That to the Educators’

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 1619 Project creator and professor, said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that parents should not be in charge of deciding what is taught in schools. | Clips

Politics | Opinion

Holocaust Education and “The Elephant as the Table”

Interview with Master Holocaust Teacher Dorene Schwartz-Weitz on the need for mandatory Holocaust education.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 19, 2021

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 19, 2021 The astounding Israeli medical achievements this week include breakthroughs in treating brain diseases, cancer, wounds, glaucoma, infections, deafness and blindness. Israelis have given aid to the

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 12, 2021

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 12, 2021 Israeli innovations continue to flow at an amazing pace. This week’s newsletter includes medical cures for Alzheimer’s and Covid; a cancer mutation database and saliva-based testing kit

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

Want to Retain Information Better? Try This Popular, 70-Year-Old Note-Taking Method

At a conference, in a conference room, or in a classroom, this method is proven and powerful.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Kentucky Mayor Gets Lap Dance from Male High School Student During ‘Man Pageant’ at School Assembly

The mayor of Hazard, KY, and principal of Hazard High School allegedly received a lap dance from a scantily clad male high school student.

And leftists love this.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Education 'Experts' Emphatically Claim in WaPo Op-Ed Parents Don't Have a Say in Their Kids' Education

"What’s actually radical here is the assertion of parental powers that have never previously existed."

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Schools gave laptops to kids during pandemic — then they spied on the students for their own good: report

Schools across the United States reportedly handed out laptops to pupils for distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic — and then spied on them with the very same electronic device, according to a Monday report from The Guardian.
What are the details

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

WATCH: School Board Squirms As Mom Reads Them The Gay Porn In Books Available To Students

A Virginia mom found that books graphically depicting pedophilia were in her child’s school as part of its commitment to diversity and inclusion — so she read from them, verbatim, to the school board.

Liberals really are very sick people. They have no values whatsoever. They are all narcissists, who behave almost like animals. They have no regard for children, and do everything possible to rob children of their childhoods because all they actually care about is raising little leftists. We also REALLY need to drop the pretense that teachers nobles, selfless educators. They are almost all leftists themselves who see their roll not as educators, but as agents of the left there to “correct” anything taught by parents that contradicts their far left poison.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Mayor Tells School Board Resign Or Be Charged With ‘Child Porn’ Over Assignment, Parents Erupt In Applause

An Ohio mayor on Monday confronted a school board over sexual and inappropriate writing prompts students were given in class, informing board members they can either resign or face potential charges of child pornography.

Liberals really are sick people.

Politics | Op-Ed

What American Children Are Taught About 9/11 Can Be Dangerous

The American education system will school the children of the tens of thousands of largely unvetted Afghan nationals who filled flights out of Kabul.

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Pro-Antifa HS Teacher Boasts of Turning Students Into ‘Revolutionaries’

Project Veritas released a shocking video of a California AP Government teacher, Gabriel Gipe, boasting about politically indoctrinating...

Politics | Leftist Lies

'There's No Such Thing as Learning Loss,' Says L.A. Teachers Union Chief

Cecily Myart-Cruz, head of United Teachers Los Angeles told Los Angeles magazine in a recent interview, "There's no such thing as learning loss."

Teachers Unions: Pure evil.

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Illinois' Pritzker Signs Bill Requiring Kindergartners to Define Gender Identity

Illinois’ governor, J.B. Pritzker (D), signed a bill into law claiming the new sex ed standards that require kindergartners to learn to...