Education

Authored by Nikita Vladimirov via CampusReform.org,

A new survey published by The Brookings Institution finds that about one-in-five undergraduate students approve of using violence to shut down controversial speakers.

A majority of undergraduate students at U.S. four-year colleges and universities also agreed with a hypothetical protest in which a group “opposed to the speaker disrupts the speech by loudly and repeatedly shouting so that the audience cannot hear the speaker.”

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

The Student Loan Debt and Housing Report 2017 by the National Association of Realtors and the nonprofit group American Student Assistance shows the obvious: Student debt delays household formation, home buying, and saving.

Authored by Coy Westbrook via TheCollegeFix.com,

University will host dinners as part of ‘racial reconciliation’ program

To promote “racial reconciliation” after the deadly clashes between white nationalists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville last month, Brown University plans to offer segregated events to its black students and female Muslim students.

Authored by Casey Mattox via Alliance Defending Freedom,

More than four decades ago, the Supreme Court made it clear that public college students do not sacrifice their constitutional rights when they arrive on campus, finding “no room for the view that … First Amendment protections should apply with less force on college campuses than in the community at large.”

One person was killed, and 5 injured in a shooting at the Freeman High School in Rockford, Washington, south of Spokane. The suspect had been taken into custody, police and local media said.

BREAKING: Spokane Fire Chief confirms one person is dead in shooting at Freeman High School. #KXLY

— Stevee Chapman (@SteveeKXLY) September 13, 2017