Tag: Education & Family News

Academic Cheating Surged 13-Fold During Pandemic, Study Shows

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in academic cheating’s biggest increase in 16 years, according to Jarrod Morgan, the founder of test supervision company Meazure Learning. A new study by Meazure shows that from 2019 to 2021, confirmed cases of academic cheating during online monitored tests increased by about 13 times. “We’re catching them definitely trying to…


Dissolving Disney’s Special District ‘Catastrophic’ for Local Taxpayers

The Reedy Creek Improvement District’s (RCID) Board of Supervisors meets on April 27 for its regularly scheduled monthly meeting at the district’s offices on Hotel Plaza Boulevard in Lake Buena Vista. On the agenda is an appointment, an amended work order, and a proposed solar power purchase agreement—typical stuff for a special district accorded most…


Ohio School Board President Resigns for Alleged Attempt to Meet 11-Year-Old Girl for Sex

The head of a public school board in Ohio resigned on Sunday after a video posted online showed him being confronted and eventually arrested by police in Indiana for an alleged child sex crime. “A video posted Saturday evening on YouTube shows John Gray, Goshen Local Schools board president, being handcuffed by law enforcement in…


Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Virginia School District’s Critical Race Theory Indoctrination

A Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by families seeking to block their local school district’s “anti-racist” policy that labels white, Christian students as a part of an oppressive “dominant culture.” The lawsuit was brought by five families against the public school system of Albemarle County, Virginia. The school district in 2019 adopted an…


Harvard Hosts Chinese Communist Officials in Student-Run Conference

A student-run body at Harvard University recently hosted a Chinese diplomat who previously denied claims of genocide in Xinjiang and described the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a “great party.” Huang Ping, Consul General of the Chinese consulate in New York, told attendees of the annual Harvard College China Forum on April 16 that China…


Marxists Seek to Destabilize American Society Through Sexualization of Young People: Expert

Young people in the United States are being subjected to communist-style sexualization, according to author and expert James Lindsay. The goal is to destabilize society to make it ripe for communists to grab power, Lindsay, author of “Race Marxism” and “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms…


Mask Mandates See a Comeback to American College Campuses

Two months after the federal government eased mask recommendations for most Americans, some colleges and universities have reinstated mask mandates, along with other measures, citing surges in COVID-19 cases on their campuses. Several prominent institutions—including American University and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; Columbia University in New York; Johns Hopkins University in Maryland; and Rice…


Mask Mandates Make Comeback to US College Campuses

Two months after the federal government eased mask recommendations for most Americans, some colleges and universities have reinstated mask mandates, along with other measures, citing surges in COVID-19 cases on their campuses. Several prominent institutions—including American University and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; Columbia University in New York; Johns Hopkins University in Maryland; and Rice…


Marx Would Be Canceled by the Left If Their Criticisms of the West Were Honest: Douglas Murray

Journalist and author of the new book “The War on the West,” Douglas Murray, says people around the world have been misled by hypocritical and conflicting anti-West rhetoric by the left, which reveres German political theorist Karl Marx but will allow the denigration of Western heroes like U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and British Prime Minister Winston…


Legislation to Prohibit Discriminatory Teaching in K-12 Classrooms Advances in South Carolina House

South Carolina legislation that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in the K-12 classroom advanced in the House on April 21. House Bill 5183, or the South Carolina Transparency and Integrity in Education Act, would prevent “ideological and viewpoint biases” being presented as fact instead of theory while maintaining “complete histories of…