private schools

How a style steeped in American elitism took over the world.

As conservative groups give up on public schools, the fight today is about looting public resources.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

The American exchange organizers were unaware that the German pupils and staff were charged with an explicitly propagandistic mission.

After the U.S Supreme Court forced school integration in early 1970, white families fled to either racist Central Academy or new Mennonite schools.

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.

Why Americans rejected educating only the children of the wealthy.

Reflecting on the impact of an education in an institution deliberately set up to defy court-ordered desegregation.

Government-funded schools evolved from a broader system of public education that couldn't provide what students needed.

To understand Catholic overrepresentation on the U.S. Supreme Court, we must look to the history of American Catholic education.

Until the mid-20th century, Oregon was perhaps the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.

How the Nazi government used exchange student programs to foster sympathy for Nazism in the United States.

Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.

The landscape for educational freedom is finally freed of 19th century prejudices, but other federal constitutional questions remain.

Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.

A lesson on contextualizing history.

In 1830, Boston had just concluded a radical experiment — a high school for girls.

Undermining public education will exacerbate polarization and mistrust.

The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.

They believed public schools were the foundation of a virtuous republic.