Posts Tagged ‘classrooms’

Students return to Gaza classrooms, but many schools are still damaged from Israeli attacks

In late August students in Gaza headed back to schools where many are learning in overcapacity classrooms with up to three sharing a desk, as educators grapple to find places for pupils whose schools were bombed during a recent escalation with Israel.  According to the Ministry of Education in Gaza, between May 10 and May […]

‘Woke’ Los Angeles School Caught Decorating Classrooms With ‘F*ck the Police,’ ‘F*ck Amerikkka’ Posters

A ‘woke’ Los Angeles school has been caught decorating classrooms with hateful anti-Americans, anti-police propaganda, behind parents backs. A classroom at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) promoted the messages “FUCK THE POLICE” and “FUCK AMERIKKKA. THIS IS NATIVE LAND,” as well as the Black Lives Matter, Palestinian, “modern PRIDE,” […]

How Parent Organizing Has Shifted Classrooms Toward Racial Justice

Over the past year, much of the nation’s education discussion has been where learning was taking place: on Zoom? In the classroom? Both? While COVID-19 exacerbated existing inequities around access, focus is now being drawn to what students are learning. Debate over curriculum isn’t new, but has been contested in varying degrees for decades. Before the right-wing-stoked controversy over […]

Australian Senate Has Voted to Keep Critical Race Theory out of Australian Classrooms

The Australian Upper House has voted to reject Critical Race Theory (CRT) from the national curriculum after the new proposed curriculum gave priority to teaching the culture, perspectives, and history of indigenous Australians across all subjects, including maths. The motion, put forward by One Nation’s Pauline Hanson, passed narrowly with a 30-28 vote. The Liberal, […]

UK funding backing hate-filled material taught in Palestinian classrooms

British taxpayers are continuing to pay for a Palestinian education system in which school pupils are routinely taught incitement, hatred of Israel and glorification of terrorism. Many of the textbooks are written by vetted officials, whose salaries are paid by the UK. Despite numerous assurances from the Palestinian education minister, detailed reports from the Israel-based […]

High schoolers return to classrooms, but principals say most studies stay online

Around 400,000 Israeli high schoolers were set to return to the classroom on Sunday morning after a break of nearly two months. Under the Health Ministry’s plan, students will have at least two days a week of in-person studying, with distance learning on the remaining days. Restrictions dividing students into separate study groups mean that […]

A new and glossier climate-indoctrination movie is now being inserted into classrooms, starting with Australia and New Zealand

Australian schools in the past decade have forced literally millions of kids to watch Al Gore’s error-riddled propaganda movie, An Inconvenient Truth. In 2007 an outraged English truck driver and parent took the education minister to the High Court in 2007 over the film’s gross inaccuracies, with Justice Burton ordering UK teachers must not show it […]

The New Normal In ‘Virtual Classrooms’: Porn, Guns, & Racism?

While classrooms across the Chicago Public School (CPS) district are empty, due to the virus pandemic, remote learning between teachers and their students has been met with challenges, especially with virtual classes, some of which have been interrupted by hackers, pranksters, and or disorderly students, reported Chicago Tribune. “The kids were in the class and all of a sudden you see porn, […]

Teacher Complains That Virtual Classrooms Will Allow Parents to Witness ‘Woke’ Brainwashing

Legendary British comedian John Cleese has hit out at permanently offended woke people, insisting that they have no sense of humour and are contributing to the death of comedy. In an appearance on the Daily Beast’s The Last Laugh Podcast, Cleese noted that woke people simply do not understand the intricacies of comedy. “There’s plenty […]

Ethnic Studies In Seattle: A Look Inside The Classrooms Of Antiracist Educators

Ethnic Studies: A Movement Toward Equity In Jesse Hagopian’s multigrade classroom at Garfield High School, students are learning about U.S. History as time travelers. They close their eyes at the sound of a DeLorean playing over the projector and engines whirring, they are transported to 1964. At once, they are immersed in the experiences of […]

How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms

How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms January 17th, 2018 Via: Politico: Last year, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte made an announcement to great fanfare: The university would soon open a branch of the Confucius Institute, the Chinese government-funded educational institutions that teach Chinese […]

Baltimore’s Apartheid Schools: Students Forced To Sit in 40 Degree Classrooms

BALTIMORE – Usually people – especially children – look forward to snowy days. In addition to building snow creatures and throwing snowballs, it sometimes means no school. Usually. But not in Baltimore; in Baltimore, during one of the coldest winter storms on record, children were in school. They were shivering, wearing coats, hats and gloves, […]

White, Male Students Called on Last in Some Classrooms

‘Progressive stacking’ not new, not isolated to Penn The backlash may be new, but the method is not. Controversy erupted recently after tweets from an Ivy League teaching assistant showed her admitting she only calls on white male students as a last resort. “I will always call on my black women students first. Other [people of color] […]

CBO: Nearly 1 in 6 Young Men in U.S. Jobless or Incarcerated

Nearly one in six young men (between the ages of 18-34) in the U.S. were either jobless or incarcerated in 2014, according to a new government report. It details a striking amount of male alienation that has been on the rise since the 1980s. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), out […]

Earth-Insulated, Shipping Container, Underground Home

Earth-Insulated, Shipping Container, Underground Home April 18th, 2016 Book: Off Grid and Underground: A Simpler Way to Live Paperback by Steve Rees Via: Kirsten Dirksen: <!– –> […]

"Feel the Bern" of Cabalist Menorah

  February 17, 2016 (Sanders was Mayor of Burlington VT. from 1981-89.)  Mayor Sanders Championed Symbol of Satanic Possession Bernie Sanders claims to be a “non religious” Jew,  but Communists are Cabalists (Satanists.) In the 1980’s,  he fought to keep a Chabad (Cabalist) menorah  in front of City Hall. The ensuing controversy received nationwide attention and pioneered the […]

Check Out Adidas’ 3-D Printed Sneakers Made From Plastic Trash From The Ocean

Adidas has teamed up with Parley for the Oceans, an organization dedicated to reducing plastic waste, to create a 3-D printed shoe that is, amazingly, manufactured using recycled plastic waste collected from the ocean. For now, this ingenious invention is just a prototype, but that doesn’t mean it won’t soon be a reality for the […]

High-tech classrooms aren’t producing higher grades

  By Matt RichtelNYT September 4, 2011 The class, and the Kyrene School District as a whole, offer what some see as a utopian vision of education’s future. Classrooms are decked out with laptops, big interactive screens and software that drills students on every basic subject. Under a ballot initiative approved in 2005, the district […]

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