Peter Maxwell reports: Everett Piper has a much bigger agenda than simply stopping the federal government from telling his evangelical university how it must investigate rape allegations. The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University says he is defending the most basic rights of women against “misogynists” in Washington who deny their fundamental identities. In a phone…
Category: Youth & Schools
Grade school kids to be given ‘social and emotional mindset assessments’
Joe Cadillic writes: The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is planning on assessing students social and emotional “mindsets” like “grit,” “desire for learning,” and “school climate.” According to the NAGB, school kids from 4th-12th., grades will be given ‘mindset assessments.’ Unfortunately, student assessments have been going on since 1990, students across the country at grades 4, 8 and…
PA: Feds critical of Weatherly Area’s student privacy policy
Maria Jacketti reports: Some very big eyes from Washington and Harrisburg have focused their attention on the Weatherly Area School District and its attempt to write its own student privacy policy. The district’s action was in response to May 13 “suggestions” from the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education on how to…
Texas Seeks Temporary Block of Rules for Transgender Students
Alexa Ura reports: With the first day of school looming, Texas will go to court on Friday and begin pressing its argument that the Obama administration strayed outside the law by ordering public schools to accommodate transgender students. In a case expected to come down to the distinction between sex and gender identity, the state’s lawsuit against the federal government…