Education

During the Cold War, the government relied on universities for research, but also saw scholars as dangerous.

When it came to antisemitism, women’s colleges were no better than the Ivy League.

On the troubling history of IQ tests and special education.

What the history of the pocket calculator reveals about the future of AI in classrooms.

The classroom staple turns a hundred.

Columbia is at war with its intellectual heritage.

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy.

How the City College of New York went from an experiment in public education to an intellectual hot spot for working class and immigrant students.

C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in postwar America.

On the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy.

Public education is meant to be a great equalizer. That’s why Trump wants to do undo it.

For decades, the term “school choice” was widely and rightly dismissed as racist. Now it’s the law in thirty-three states.

Throughout the entire history of left-wing organizing in the United States, the building of institutions of political education has been key.

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

He tackled segregation in the nation’s public colleges and fraud in student-aid programs, and established the Department of Education.

At universities, American Marxism has led to good scholarship, but it’s also encouraged hyper-specialization and the use of impenetrable jargon.

Why “Let’s have public schools like the Founding Fathers had” is such a terrible idea.

Belief that schools must teach moral values is older than public schools themselves. But whose morals?

For more than 50 years, we've been worrying about "grade inflation" at elite American universities. It's time to move on.

Advanced Placement courses are no recipe for igniting the intellect beyond high school. They’re a recipe for extinguishing it.

America has been declaring war on Black education since this country’s beginnings. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Stop Woke Act seeks to continue this tradition.

Laws controlling what schools teach about race and gender show an awareness that classrooms are sites of nation-building.

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.

How 20th-century curriculum controversies foreshadowed this summer’s wave of legislation.

Black educators have always known that their students are living in an anti-Black world and that their teaching must be set against the order of that world.

At Boston Latin School teachers are changing the way they prepare their students to think critically about immigration policy.

In 1790, U.S. men were about twice as likely as U.S. women to be literate. But by 1870, girls were surpassing boys in public schools.

The pessimism of some historians does an injustice to marginalized people of the past and can produce cynicism in students.

Nearly two decades ago, historians embraced a hugely wasteful federal education program. It’s past time to reckon with that.

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