Tag: Education
Wall Street Journal Exposes Likely Fraud at the Heart of 2015 MU Campus Protests
Reporter Jillian Kay Melchior of the Wall Street Journal took it upon herself in 2018 to do what local media…
KU’s Multicultural Student Government Manages to “Impeach” First President in “Messy” Procedure
The government of the United States of America was in business for nearly 80 years before it managed to impeach…
Kate Steinle “She Had Dreams Too” Poster Stirs the KU Snow Globe
Among the anonymous posters offending the diversity and inclusion crowd at the University of Kansas is one that shows an…
Statewide Missouri Survey Asks 6th Graders If They Want to Change Their Gender
The nerve of those parents in the Crawford School District who think it inappropriate for the State of Missouri to…
Kansas High Schoolers About to Get Famous on A&E’s 11-Part “Undercover High”
Tuesday, January 16, marks the debut of an 11-part series on A&E called “Undercover High.” The series follows seven twenty-somethings…
Female Missouri Teacher Accused of “Grooming” Middle School Boys for Sex
Former Joplin middle school teacher Amanda Schweitzer has become part of a disturbing and yet difficult to explain trend: female…
MU Diversity Dean Said to Call Missourians “Bumpkins, Hicks and Illiterates Who Lived in Hootersville”
UPDATE from MU Curator: “Obviously with litigation now ongoing, we will have to dig even harder to get to the…
Wichita Teachers Average 6 Percent Raise, Super Gets $14K Bump
Wichita School Superintendent Alicia Thompson will sweeten her salary by more than $14,000 this school year, and district teachers won’t…
Liberty High Makes Drudge, School Suspended Debater for Criticizing Islamic Extremism
Senior Alex Lonsdale, a member of Liberty High School’s nationally ranked debate club, discovered after the fact that not all…
Strange But True: KU Grad Students “Walk Out” to Protest Higher Taxes
Earlier this week the KU Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition (GTAC) staged something of a “walk out” on campus to protest…
The New Border War: Which State Can Generate the Most Fake Hate Crimes
Missouri and Kansas seem to have revived the border war, this time over which state can generate the most fake…
Did Garden City CC Really Throw “Muslim” Basketballer Out of College?
Garden City Community College in western Kansas is enduring an unexpected moment in the basketball sun due to the hasty…
Shocker: KU Pro-Life Group to Host “Lies Feminists Tell” Event, Gets Fair Coverage from Daily Kansan
Readers should brace themselves for a triple shock: the University of Kansas has a pro-life group; its members are bold…
Business Is Brisk For KU’s Famed Hate Crime Hoax Detector
Laird Wilcox, arguably the nation’s foremost hate crime hoax detector, was back in the news. The hoax du jour unfolded–and…
Big Potential for Cost Savings at Kansas Universities
An analysis of staffing levels prepared by Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) shows the University of Kansas appears to be far…
KU Could Be on The Hook for Millions If Football Coaches Are Fired
There is something about losing five straight football games and giving up an average of more than 50 points a…
Adidas Scandal May Have Left its Footprint on KU
A trio of reporters at KU’s Daily Kansan–Conner Mitchell, Sean Collins and Wesley Dotson–are getting some deserved national attention for…
Monday at Plaza Library: “Russell Kirk, Charity, and the Conservative Imagination”
The Kansas City Public Library is one of the rare public institutions in America–and perhaps the only one in the…
New School Super: “Kansas Really Supports Their Educators”
Angela Holloway-Payne, who left her native Memphis for a job as a school superintendent in Kansas, told the Hutchinson News…
Lawrence High Grooms Fresh Snowflakes For Future Campus Meltdowns
On Monday as many as 100 students at Lawrence High staged something of a sit-down strike to protest “disrespectful” comments…
Shocker: Star Runs Fair and Balanced Article on Campus Carry
In an unusual burst of objective journalism, the Kansas City Star ran a featured article on Sunday that allowed a…
Snowflake Advisory: MU Commits to Protect “Deeply Offensive” Speech
A snowflake advisory has been posted for all four campuses in the MU system–the university has pledged to protect speech…
CNN Reports on Armed Serial Rapist at KU, KSU
According to CNN, a rapist who stalked college students in their off-campus housing at the University of Kansas and Kanas…
Star: “Gender-Inclusive Housing” Expands at UMKC, KU–Whatever That Means
In an age of shifting definitions readers find themselves puzzling over the meaning of headlines like this one from the…