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Calls for control over educators are manufactured political myths as they’ve never had the power to push an agenda.

The 1954 Supreme Court ruling was hailed as a victory for desegregation. But protracted white resistance decimated the pipeline of Black principals and teachers.

The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects.

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.

And why spying on the “bums” has been terrible for schools.

Until school boards and administrators listen to teachers, they’ll end up with shortages in every crisis.

A look in on the first evolution trial.

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.

Fears that teachers were indoctrinating kids were rampant in the 1950s. But the reality was more complicated.

When we think of Jonathan Edwards, most probably think first of him as a theologian or preacher. But a new book also shows him as a mentor.

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

We've all heard about Black Power, but what about Teacher Power–a teachers' rights movement recently reawakened?

African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.

Labor unrest harmed Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s. This time the GOP might be the loser.

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

Why should taxpayers fund schools that violate their own values, the Moms for Liberty wonder? A new book traces how this kind of thinking about public spending came to be.

It was never very effective at preventing drug use.

Harriet M. Buss' missives home detail the future congressman's candid views on race and the complicity of Confederate women.

The course was getting a first read after years of review. Then, the Texas Board of Education needed more time to assess it without “drama or controversy.”

Exploring Deaf history, language and education as the hearing child of a Deaf adult.