Former members of the fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, claimed on social media that the same chant was used at colleges in other states, and University of Oklahoma officials investigating the episode said they did not believe the song had originated on their campus

OKLAHOMA CITY — A former University of Oklahoma student captured on video leading a racist chant apologized Wednesday, saying he was sorry for his role in the incident and ashamed that he participated.
The words in the chant “were mean, hateful and racist,” said the former student, Levi Pettit, who was surrounded by African-American community leaders at the Fairview Missionary Baptist Church here.

Reports of anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish sentiment have been on the rise across the country in recent years, especially directed at younger Jews, researchers said. Barry A. Kosmin, a Trinity College researcher and a co-author of a study issued last month that found extensive examples of anti-Semitism directed at college students, said he had not come across anything as striking as what happened at U.C.L.A.

SAN FRANCISCO - Humane Society International and the Change for Animals Foundation, in collaboration with local partners, have rescued 57 dogs from a South Korean dog meat farm and brought them to San Francisco for adoption into new homes.

TT - Im lặng trong các cuộc họp, các buổi sinh hoạt chuyên đề, chuyên môn... đã trở thành chuyện thường ngày của giáo viên hiện nay.

Chuyện yêu “Dù trong dù đục ao nhà vẫn hơn” không còn đúng với thiếu nữ Việt hiện đại. Vậy, các nữ du học sinh Việt xinh đẹp – những người có điều kiện “mở” tiếp xúc bạn khác phái ở trời Tây nói gì về chuyện có bạn trai Tây?

Anh bạn tôi không có TS, nên không thể là Phó Giáo sư hay Giáo sư. Nhưng bằng năng lực thật và những đóng góp chuyên môn nên rất được quí mến, coi trọng. Trong khi nhiều TS, Phó GS, GS cùng ngành chẳng ai biết.

Advocates for the deaf on Thursday filed federal lawsuits against Harvardand M.I.T., saying both universities violated antidiscrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in their online lectures, courses, podcasts and other educational materials.

BEIJING — They are out there, hiding in library stacks, whispering in lecture halls, armed with dangerous textbooks and subversive pop quizzes: foreign enemies plotting a stealthy academic invasion of Chinese universities.
So says China’s education minister, Yuan Guiren, who has been issuing dire alarms about the threat of foreign ideas on the nation’s college campuses, calling for a ban on textbooks that promote Western values and forbidding criticism of the Communist Party’s leadership in the classroom.
Four years ago, he told a prominent government advisory panel that restricting the use of Western teaching materials was wrongheaded. “No matter how many foreign resources we import, we won’t be at risk, because we’re on Chinese soil,” he said, according to a March 2011 article in the state-run Jinghua Times newspaper.
Referring to the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students who have gone overseas to study, he added, “We even sent so many people abroad and they weren’t affected in the nest of capitalism, so why fear they would be affected here?”

Cảm thấy hệ thống giáo dục công đang xuống dốc, nhiều bậc cha mẹ Trung Quốc đã quyết định đầu tư một số tiền lớn cho con theo học ở những trường tư thục áp dụng phương pháp giáo dục kiểu Tây phương.
Trái ngược với phương pháp giáo dục truyền thống ở Trung Quốc bắt học sinh phải học thuộc, học vẹt, thi cử kiểm tra liên miên, đặt nặng vấn đề điểm chác...., phương pháp giáo dục phi truyền thống khuyến khích và tạo điều kiện cho trẻ được tự do phát triển, thể hiện tính cách, không bị gò bó vào một khuôn mẫu nhất định.