Education

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The Hall Family Farm in North Carolina is facing accusations of racism after a tour guide recited their decade-old script mentioning "cotton pickers" to a predominantly black group of students. (WCCB)

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Can you pass a basic geography test? (Shutterstock)

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La Jolla Elementary School Principal Donna Tripi apologized Wednesday after she sent an email alerting parents that there was a suspicious black man at a local Starbucks. (screenshot NBC San Diego)

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The Forest Hill High School band has been barred from competition in the wake of a "John Q"-inspired halftime show. The Mississippi performance required students dressed as doctors and nurses to point fake rifles at peers portraying police officers. (Image: Fox News screenshot)

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Ruth D-Eredita, poses for a portrait in her home in Vienna, Va., Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. D-Eredita graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1984 and last October reported that a professor sexually assaulted her when she was a sophomore in college. Universities have seen an increase in decades-old sexual misconduct complaints amid the MeToo movement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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In this frame grab from video provided by WPLG-TV, students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., evacuate the school following a shooting there on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (WPLG-TV via AP)

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College Admission Discrimination Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Former NFL football quarterback Colin Kaepernick applauds while seated on stage during W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ceremonies, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Kaepernick is among eight recipients of Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Medals in 2018. Harvard has awarded the medal since 2000 to people whose work has contributed to African and African-American culture.(AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Dawn Thilmany, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University

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04/04/2016 - Boston, Mass. - LinkedIn head shots for students attending Public Health and Nutrition Career Expo. (Matthew Healey for Tufts University)

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In a Friday, May 25, 2018, file photo, Hillary Clinton answers a question at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Can you pass a U.S. Constitution test? (Shutterstock)

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Texas Christian University has denounced conservative podcaster Steven Crowder and offered counseling for students offended by his "change my mind" event earlier this week. (Twitter/@scrowder)

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Led by Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University in Oregon, a trio of self-declared "left-wing academics" ran a research project exposing what they call higher education's burgeoning field of "grievance studies." (Screengrab from Peter Boghossian's Twitter account)