Not everyone at Mizzou is happy about university system president Tim Wolfe’s resignation. Some students are taking to Yik Yak to anonymously voice their real opinions.
Here are the 4 items on Michelle Obama’s FLOTUS bucket list:
- Start a movement on girls’ education - #62MillionGirls
- Open a window
- Go to Target
- Drive
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A sheriff’s deputy in Kentucky is accused of illegally shackling this 8-year-old boy and one other disabled child after they misbehaved at school.
In a shocking video of the encounter, the deputy tells the boy, “You can do what we’ve asked you to, or you can suffer the consequences.”
He was another teenage boy walking down the street in Brooklyn …
How one photo changed his entire future:http://on.msnbc.com/1tz1QtE
Arizona school board rips page from biology textbooks - literally - over abortion mentions
This week, the school board in Gilbert, Arizona voted to rip out a page of the honors biology textbook because it mentioned abortion.
The school board cited a recently instated law that schools must give preference to child birth and adoption over abortion.
Last summer, a religious group complained about the paragraph to the Board of Education; the board looked into it and found no issue.
The religious group showed up at the school board meeting on Tuesday with three Republican state senators, urging them to get rid of the abortion materials in the textbook. And they won.
It turns out that the fastest and most effective way to get rid of the section is to excise the page.
In response, the team at The Rachel Maddow Show bought ArizonaHonorsBiology.com to display the page and its facts for all to see.
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This Week in History: On August 18, 1963, James H. Meredith became the first African-American to graduate from the University of Mississippi. Pictured here, Meredith, center, is escorted by federal marshals as he arrives for registration at the all-white University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Miss., on September 30, 1962. (AP)
“Does this country support its billionaires through tax loopholes or, for the same amount of money, does this country support students who try to get an education?”
Despite dramatic upticks in overall student achievement in recent years, the achievement gap between white and minority high school students remains wide and steady. http://onmsnbc.co/nxntop
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