Also, Black History Month tends to be observed to focus on great men and women of history, or a time for emphasizing ...

What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

A reflection on Carter G Woodson’s legacy and the meaning of Black History Month. The essay explores mis education, Afrocentric learning, and the call for an emancipatory education rooted in history, ...

Students took what they could get in the 1950s at Stanford. “This was not a time in which people raised big questions about what they were being taught,” history and humanities professor emeritus ...

School – and the federal government's role in it – has been a topic of debate in the U.S. since the very first Department of Education was created. School and the federal government's role in it has ...

Whether over creationism or gender identity, bitter political fights have sprung up around what sorts of ideas should be taught in public schools. Education is often touted as a tool of social ...

A conversation with Eve L. Ewing about the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy and her book Original Sins. Eve L. Ewing Eve L. Ewing has spent much of her career examining inequities in ...

"Education, education, education" was at the heart of Tony Blair's pitch to the British public in the run-up to the 1997 general election. Now, 27 years on, the issue is still a central plank of ...

Education has gotten polarized and hotly political over the past few years. This has frustrated many who thought that we’d entered a new, more bipartisan era of schooling in the 1990s and early 2000s.