education

Conservative Professor Tells Students To ‘Get Out of My Class And Leave America’

Conservative Professor Tells Students To ‘Get Out of My Class And Leave America’

A conservative professor’s opening statement to students telling them to get out of his class and leave America if they dare disagree with him is going viral. Mike Adams, a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, is making waves as part of a conservative effort to brand liberal arts professors […]

9-Year-Old Girl Shames Florida School Board – VIDEO

9-Year-Old Girl Shames Florida School Board – VIDEO

9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board that: This testing looks at me as […]

Proposed Bill Bans AP History, Requires Study of 10 Commandments, 3 Reagan Speeches

Proposed Bill Bans AP History, Requires Study of 10 Commandments, 3 Reagan Speeches

Lawmakers in Oklahoma are considering a bill that would ban Advanced Placement History courses while requiring student to study a long list of “foundational documents,” that includes “objects of historic significance” such as the Ten Commandments. The list also includes documents “related to the history, heritage and foundation of the United States,” that includes three […]

‘My Profession No Longer Exists’ – A Teacher’s Resignation Letter

‘My Profession No Longer Exists’ – A Teacher’s Resignation Letter

Teachers are speaking out against school reforms they feel are demeaning or make it impossible to do the job they were hired to do. This is a resignation letter from an educator, Gerald J. Conti, a social studies teacher at Westhill High School in Syracuse, New York.   This letter originally appeared in the Washington […]