Science, Medicine, & Education

A Georgia high school teacher who was yanked from the classroom after comparing President Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” to a swastika is speaking out for the first time since video of the exchange went viral. Lyn Orletsky, a teacher of five years at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, was seen on

Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California at Berkeley Thursday night amid threats of violence from the radical Antifa group. Berkeley spent approximately $600,000 to protect Shapiro and students who wished to hear him speak. Leftist activists slammed Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, as a “neo-Nazi” and a “white supremacist.” The campus was

A Missouri high schooler said her teacher told her she was too busty and made her leave class for an alleged dress code violation, the teen’s attorney said in a Tuesday statement. Joplin High School student Kelsey Anderson was kicked out of class Friday after her teacher told her “plus-sized women need to dress accordingly.”

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The white supremacist group whose slogan, “You will not replace us” reverberated across the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville earlier this summer has outlined plans for a year-long effort targeting college campuses with racist fliers, posters and stickers. Newly emboldened by the events and violence in Charlottesville and determined to

LOS ANGELES — The University of California sued the Trump administration Friday for rescinding protections for immigrant students without legal status, saying it unconstitutionally violates their rights on “nothing more than unreasoned executive whim.” The lawsuit filed in the northern district of California is the first legal effort by a university to block the Trump

And what comes next in sorting these giant storms. An image of Irma captured by the Suomi NPP satellite. UWM/SSEC/CIMSS, William Straka III Before Harvey, or Irma, or Katrina, there was Camille. With winds so powerful that they knocked out wind gauges in Mississippi, the epic strength of Hurricane Camille was monstrous. But before it

The Department of Education is abandoning guidance it issued under former President Barack Obama regarding Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. That guidance helped push forward a movement against campus sexual assault, but advocates for accused students have claimed it violated due process rights. “The era of

NEW YORK (Press Release) … As college students are returning to a new academic school year, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has released a new, multi-platform resource to equip them with essential information and tools to deal with anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias on campus. ‘THINK. PLAN. ACT.’ (click here) is a comprehensive resource that prepares students for