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The ACT can’t decide whether it likes Common Core or not
One of America's biggest standardized tests apparently can't decide how it feels about Common Core, and appears to be adjusting its position as the political winds shift.
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Judge Trump accused of bias gives him small win in Trump U case
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won a small victory in the Trump University lawsuit Tuesday, as a federal judge rejected media efforts to release video recordings of his testimony.
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Yale forms special committee for renaming offensive things
Yale University has established a new committee dedicated to deciding when and how the school should rename buildings, monuments, and other campus features it believes are too offensive for a modern university campus.
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Dems avoid Common Core as new ‘third rail’
Leaked emails in the recent Democratic National Committee (DNC) Wikileaks hack reveal that DNC officials view Common Core as a political "third rail" and want party members to avoid talking about it. Well, sometimes, at least.
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GOP platform: Dump Common Core, pass school choice
The GOP's 2016 platform, approved by party delegates Monday night, denounces Common Core just a few years after party leaders played a major role in implementing it.
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Yale rehires employee who smashed window for being racist
Yale University is rehiring an employee who illegally smashed a historic stained glass window because he thought it was racist, saying the employee deserves a second chance.
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GOP platform: Campus rape is for police, not professors
The current draft of the GOP platform created in Cleveland includes a provision calling for sexual assault on college campuses to be handled exclusively by police, not campus judicial bodies.
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Yale employee smashes historic stained glass window because ‘it’s 2016′
A Yale University employee is out of a job, and the school is out a window, after he used a broomstick to smash a stained-glass window he complained was racist.