THIS IS WHAT ARE WE PAYING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO TEACH OUR KIDS?????

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Transgender athlete takes girls’ track title after court win; five girls refuse to compete

It was a week to remember for West Virginia track-and-field athlete Becky Pepper-Jackson, but not so much for the girls competing against the transgender teen.

The Bridgeport Middle School eighth-grader won the girls’ shot-put event Thursday at the Harrison County Middle School Championships, trouncing the second-place girl’s throw by more than three feet. Pepper-Jackson also placed second in the discus.

 

Those podium performances were made possible by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled 2-1 Tuesday in favor of Pepper-Jackson’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 law barring male-born athletes from female scholastic sports.

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UT Austin Students Protest Dissolution of DEI Positions and Firings

On Thursday, roughly two hundred students at the University of Texas in Austin held a rally and disrupted a virtual faculty meeting in protest of the firing of 60 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion related faculty from the university. The virtual meeting, headed by university President Jay Hartzell, was flooded with scores of students with screen backgrounds that included “No DEI = Not Our Texas” in red letters on an all-black background.

Christian Mira, a member of UT Austin’s Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color Agency, told NBC News that the protest was done “to show them that we want transparency, we want communication from him, we want his support,” in reference to Hartzell.

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'Grading for Equity': Promoting Students by Banning Grades of Zero and Leaving No Class Cut-Ups Behind

Joe Feldman has faced many tough crowds in the course of successfully selling his “Grading for Equity” program to school districts across the nation. During the consultant’s presentations, teachers concerned that his approach lowers standards have rolled their eyes, questioned his understanding of students, and worse.

 

Joe Feldman, equity-grading booster: Teachers and parents can be a tough crowd, but dozens of districts nationwide are giving the consultant’s ambitious project a shot.

 

“A guy in the front row got his stuff together and walked out of the room,” Feldman told RealClearInvestigations.

 

Despite the frequent resistance from teachers, dozens of districts from California to Massachusetts are giving the consultant’s ambitious project a shot. As schools face a series of crises, including a spike in chronic absenteeism and sharp academic decline, grading for equity offers a path to better grades and higher graduation rates. Its practices include the removal of behavior in calculating grades, the end of penalties for late assignments, allowing students to retake exams, and a ban on zeros as the lowest mark.

Since the pandemic, districts have been lowering standards by making grading more lenient to help struggling students, according to several studies. But Feldman insists that his sweeping overhaul isn’t part of that controversial trend. He says the practices he promotes are a matter of fairness and accuracy in an educational system that’s stacked against blacks, Latinos and other disadvantaged students.

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Elite schools turning into Hamas University as antisemitism runs rampant

The United States’ top institutions and assets for higher education are being lost to extremists.

At the University of Pennsylvania, we are no longer known as the birthplace of the mRNA vaccine or the computer. Any quick Google search over the past six months will find that our university has been overrun by extremists who hate America, hate Israel and hate Jews.

Columbia University has devolved from the birthplace of more than 100 Nobel laureates to a war zone where Jewish students have been advised to go home.

Students across the country glorify the first woman to hijack an airplane, Leila Khaled, rather than the women who graduated from their own universities.

Students and faculty are at the center of this unfortunate fall from grace.

 

On Oct. 7, while Hamas was brutally murdering, raping and kidnapping innocent civilians in southern Israel, Penn professor Huda Fakhreddine tweeted in Arabic: “while we were asleep, Palestine reinvented a new way of life” and reposted “armed struggle by the Palestinian resistance against the occupier is legal under international law.”

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‘Pedagogical Malpractice’: Inside UCLA Medical School’s Mandatory ‘Health Equity’ Class

 

LGBT couples at heightened risk from climate change, study from liberal law school claims

Same-sex couples are more likely to face the threat of climate change compared to straight couples in the U.S., a new report from the progressive UCLA School of Law claims.

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Antisemitic Protests on College Campuses Represent ‘Anti-Western and Anti-American Movement,’ Professor Says

Pro-Palestine protests on the campuses of some of America’s most elite colleges have resulted in hundreds of arrests and led Columbia University in New York to move classes online for the remainder of the semester. 

The pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, Yale, and New York University aren’t just representative of an “antisemitic movement,” but a “fundamentally an anti-Western and anti-American movement,” Bill Jacobson says. 

Jacobson, a Cornell University law professor and the founder of Legal Insurrection and the Equal Protection Project, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain who or what is driving the antisemitism on America’s college campuses. 

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These Are The Students Biden Wants To Bail Out — With Your Money

It’s not entirely coincidental that just weeks after President Joe Biden announced his latest plan to cancel student loan debt, antisemitic protests broke out on elite college campuses across the country. Biden’s bailout schemes only embolden these entitled brats.

Students at some 18 colleges have staged anti-Israel “encampment” protests. At Columbia University (where a four-year degree will set you back north of $350,000), the protests got so out of hand and so virulently antisemitic that a rabbi at Columbia urged Jewish students to “return home as soon as possible” and the university moved to mostly hybrid classes.

This has been going on for more than a week at Columbia and, since colleges don’t have the stomach to stand up to students, protests have spread to Brown, New York University, MIT, Yale, Vanderbilt, Emerson, and Tufts, all of which cost well over $200,000 for an undergraduate degree, as well as other not-cheap schools, such as the universities of Michigan, Pittsburg, and North Carolina, the University of California, Berkeley and others.

Protesters have been heard shouting antisemitic slogans, namely “intifada” and “f–k Israel,” wearing keffiyehs and COVID masks, and carrying signs to “Honor The Martyrs Of Palestine” and express the solidarity of “trans people for Palestine.”

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Joe Rogan: Universities Aren't Our Best And Brightest Anymore, "You Guys Are Doing Nonsense" At "Cult Camp"