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A Columbia Business School professor who condemned campus inaction on antisemitism claims he is under internal investigation by the university over his advocacy for Jewish and Israeli students, faculty and staff. “This is a clear act of retaliation and an attempt to silence me,” Shai Davidai wrote on X, also sharing a longer statement. Davidai, an assistant professor, said that …

Many schools across the U.S. are rethinking their class schedules for April 8, 2024 — the day a solar eclipse will hit North America. The eclipse’s line of totality — the areas where the sun will experience total coverage — will span 15 states, according to NASA. The eclipse route will travel from Mexico, arching northeast from Texas to Ohio …

EXCLUSIVE: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has opened an investigation into the school district he said bears some responsibility for the brutal attack on a St. Louis teen who was seen in a viral video having her head bashed into the pavement by another student. On Thursday, Bailey told Fox News Digital exclusively that he would be opening an investigation …

Parents and teachers in Buffalo, New York, are fed up with the ongoing violence in their schools and are calling on school leaders to beef up security for the safety of students and staff. “We have had a fight at every single school, every single day,” Pastor James Giles of the WNY Peacemakers told Buffalo news station, WIVB-TV. The violence …

FIRST ON FOX: A report detailing the “helplessness” felt by female students due to biological males, or transgender women, participating with their female sports teams was released Thursday after a congressional investigation into proposed Title IX changes by the Biden administration. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., the ranking member on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), released …

Tibet is luring investors from elsewhere in China with a promise to let their children take university entrance exams there in return for an investment of at least $400,000, an unusual move to exploit what is considered an easier scoring system. With a population that is 90% ethnic Tibetan, the region has one of China’s lowest college entry barriers, a …

Alabama may soon ban teacher-led discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as the display of pride flags in the state’s public schools, if legislation currently under consideration is passed. The current law in Alabama prohibits discussions that are deemed “not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate” from kindergarten through the fifth grade, but would expand restrictions to all …

Republicans in the South Carolina House gave key approval Wednesday to a bill expanding a program allowing parents to spend taxpayer money on private and home-school education even as a pilot plan is just starting and the state’s highest court is considering whether it is legal. After the 69-32 vote, the bill faces one more routine approval before heading to …

A Manhattan school board district has approved a resolution that could result in transgender athletes no longer being allowed to participate in girls’ sports. Community Education Council District 2, Manhattan’s largest school board district, approved a resolution 8 to 3 that prompts the city’s Department of Education to review the policies that allow these transgender athletes to participate in girls’ …

Jewish high schoolers in New York City were warned against applying to Cornell University over the school’s reported failure to protect Jewish students from repeated instances of antisemitism, Fox News Digital has learned. “As a national network of alumni dedicated to countering antisemitism on campus, we felt an obligation to warn prospective Jewish students and their families about Cornell’s failure …