Advocacy Workshops, Anti-Racist Audits: Inside a Top Medical School’s Radical Curriculum Overhaul

On November 16, 2023, just before 8:00 a.m., hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters formed a human chain across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, blocking all westbound traffic and trapping tens of thousands of vehicles in a five-mile backup. Among those vehicles were three trucks associated with the University of California, San Francisco, health system. Each was transporting organs that were set to be transplanted later that day, and the couriers, who had budgeted just 30 minutes of travel time, had their arrival delayed by nearly four hours.

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Under New Social Studies Standards, Minnesota Public School Students To Learn Palestinians' 'Liberation Struggles'

Minnesota’s new K-12 social studies standards will teach students about Palestinians’ fight for "liberation" against the oppressive "colonizer" state of Israel, according to documents obtained by a think tank in the state.

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San Francisco Reverses 'Equitable' Ban on Middle School Algebra

San Francisco public schools are walking back an equity policy that axed algebra for middle schoolers, a decade after the district put the policy in place.

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At Penn, Nothing Has Changed in Wake of Magill's Defenestration

When Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, then an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2019 arguing that political issues like climate change and gun control had no place in medical school curricula, Larry Jameson, then the dean of Penn's medical school, denounced Goldfarb by name.

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Campus Castoffs

You know that conservative alternatives to higher education are getting noticed when they are the target of a satirical novel. In How I Won a Nobel Prize, Julius Taranto presents an entertaining send-up of life and work on a campus that rejects the extremes of academic woke-ism and bureaucracy, but is subject to dangerous extremes of its own. This debut is not only fast-paced and funny (and occasionally frustrating), but also offers worthwhile representations of both progressive and conservative political ideals and activism.

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Portland Public Schools Must Now Consider Race, Gender Identity When Disciplining Students

A new collective bargaining agreement between Portland Public Schools and its unionized teachers requires school officials to consider a disruptive student's race, gender identity, and sexual orientation when crafting that student's disciplinary plan.

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You Say You Want a Counter-Revolution

For a right-wing supervillain hell-bent on cultural domination, Christopher Rufo has never made much effort to hide his master plan. The man who turned "critical race theory" into an electoral epithet, Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is fond of telling the public exactly what he wants to do and how he wants to do it, making his triumphs all the more mortifying for those seeking to arrest them.

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California Activists File Ballot Initiatives to Counter State's Transgender Policies

California activists on Monday filed three ballot initiatives to counter some of the state’s transgender policies, including those allowing minors to obtain sex changes and requiring high school girls to compete against biological boys.

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California Sues School District That Tells Parents if Kids Are Confused About Their Gender

California’s Democratic attorney general on Monday filed a suit against a school district over its rule to alert parents if their child identifies as transgender at school.

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'You Will Not Bully Us': California School Board Shuts Down State Superintendent

California's superintendent was escorted out of a local school board meeting on Thursday in a defeat for state Democratic leaders seeking to quash dissent from their LGBT education agenda. The superintendent, Tony Thurmond, testified against the Chino Valley school board’s resolution to notify parents if their children begin a gender transition at school but ran […]

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