Education

“All students studying Business Management at Seton Hall University in the USA are obligated to study Bhagavad Gita”

FACTLY says: All students studying Business Management at Seton Hall University in the USA are obligated to study Bhagavad Gita

“Biden sent 1,850 boxes to the University of Delaware making the search very, very difficult for anybody, and he refuses to give them up, and he refuses to let people even look at them.”

PolitiFact says: The FBI has conducted two searches of these papers, which CNN reported were carried out with the consent and cooperation of the president's legal team.

“Lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu wrote an opinion article in the Guardian that claims the UK education system is "supremacist whitesplaining”

“Miami-Dade County “banned” the poem read at the 2020 presidential inauguration by Amanda Gorman in all its elementary schools.”

FactCheck.org says: One K-8 school in Florida restricted access to the poem following a parent’s complaint, moving the book to a library shelf for upper-grade students only.

“Miami-Dade County has banned” Amanda Gorman’s poem “from elementary schools.”

PolitiFact says: One K-8 school in Miami-Dade County moved Amanda Gorman's poem to the middle school section of its library. Some younger students can still access it there if they show they read at a fifth-grade level.

“Video shows boxes of books removed from a middle school library that were “banned by the DeSantis regime in Florida.”

PolitiFact says: The books at a Florida middle school were not banned. The school was "weeding" out the books because they were out of date.

“Sara Duterte said learners in DepEd do not need quality education, only basic education.”

“The video is being told of a school in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh. This female teacher gives training to Hindu girls in school for Namaz. Hindu families of Baghpat should not take this matter lightly. Ayesha of future to your Hindu daughter. Preparing to make Sania. Request to Hindus to share widely without taking this issue lightly. Baghpat police please tell about the case.”

“Video of a school teacher training her female Hindu students how to recite namaz in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh”

FACTLY says: The post shares an old video of students rehearsing a play or drama for a cultural event in the Hoshiyari Devi Girls Inter College in Rathoda village of the Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh. The video shows an edited v…

“Parineeti Chopra and Raghav Chadha studied together at the London School of Economics”

“Grade 10 Filipino students can now directly attend college after graduation as the K to 12 curriculum has been scrapped”

“Teacher party-list group collects money for communist groups”

FactRakers says: Money collected from members are union dues allowed by law

“Tala Rivera, an award-winning Filipina student, discovered a formula that helps people instantly lose 27 kilograms in 30 days”

“Sara Duterte told teachers who were criticizing the slow and outdated laptops purchased by the Department of Education to shut up”

“Amartya Sen was involved in gross irregularities and land grab during his tenure at visva-Bharati university in West Bengal”

FACTLY says: Amartya Sen never held an official position at Visva-Bharati University, and the recent controversy between him and the university is related to a dispute over his ancestral property

“Under threat of having their licenses revoked, gay teachers have been forced to take down pictures of their spouses from their desks and censor their classroom materials.”

Washington Post says: The law does not specifically ban photos but teachers say it has had chilling effect

“Ferdinand Marcos Sr. obtained a grade of almost 98% when he took the bar exam in 1939. He has the highest score in the history of Philippine bar exams.”

“Kolkata’s Presidency University allowed a Dawat-e-Iftar event to be held on campus, while earlier denying permission for a Saraswati Puja celebration”

FACTLY says: The viral image depicts an Iftar event organized by the hostel boarders at Eden Hindu Hostel on 05 April 2023. This event was not conducted at the Presidency University campus, nor was it organized by the University adm…

“Old interview video showing Narendra Modi admitting that he studied only up to matriculation in high school”

FACTLY says: The video shared in the post is a clipped one. The extended version of the video shows Narendra Modi explaining about his higher education stating that he graduated with B.A. and M.A. degrees through distance education.…

“U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence.”

PolitiFact says: State educational standards that dictate what students learn in schools across the country require that kids be taught the Declaration of Independence.