education

Why has Michigan been in an "academic downward spiral"...

Chinese government is in the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University?

Let us start the day off with some heartwarming, tear jerking news.

Congrat’s Ann Arbor, a WalletHub study has found that Ann Arbor is the most educated city in the United States. The study looked at 150 of the largest metropolitan areas in the country, they evaluated each city using nine relevant metrics...

I knew there were quite a few children in Michigan who were on the subsidized school lunch program.  What I did not know was how many. According to the Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information as reported by Mlive...

Should a student who “liked” a picture of a gun on Instagram be suspended from school?  Well apparently one school in Trenton Ohio thought so. Fox 19 in Ohio is reporting on a Middle School student who received a 10 day suspension for “liking” a picture of a gun on his Instagram account...

What does geology and race have to do with each other, an intelligent person would think nothing.  Well apparently a geology professor at Pomona College thinks differently. The Campus Reform news site is reporting on this geology professor who said she is prioritizing students of color, immigrants and poor students to be allowed in her class which is restricted to 15 students...

A Florida middle school science teacher bullied and called his Future Farmers of America (FFA) students murderers'. The Daily Caller reported that the teacher, Thomas Roger Allison Jr., allegedly stated the following to his students: When the animals’ throats are being slit, they are calling out your names, asking why you are not coming to save them The good news is that the Marion County School d

I have been a champion and longtime supporter of teaching our young adults the art of critical thinking, but can that critical thinking exercise go too far? I think we may have just found a topic where the art of teaching critical thinking, at least from a subject matter perspective, has gone too far...

Michigan’s Department of Education’s proposed A-F grading plan for Michigan’s schools has been eliminated for consideration. Mlive.com is reporting that Michigan is dropping its plan to grade our schools with an overall A-F grade...