high school

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.

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

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

So where were those angsty kids?

People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.

The top educational priorities in the Sunshine State were apparently reading, writing, and anti-communism.

University faculty nationwide rebuke Ron DeSantis's recent decision to ban the course from Florida schools.

APAAS, Florida, and history.

'Nothing is more dramatic than having the College Board launch an AP course in a field,' says Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helped develop the curriculum.

For a century, student activists have demanded a say in their schools.

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.

Born out of the Cold War, the course has a great contradiction at its heart: why do we teach history?

The fight over free education is much older than you think.

Research into the long-term consequences of a polio outbreak found that older students are at highest risk for harm.

Bunk Executive Director Ed Ayers on the importance of teaching students to think for themselves.

In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.

We investigated a dataset of more than 30,000 high school yearbook photos from 1930–2013 to find out when big hair was at its height.

"I get teary-eyed with my students."

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

It was among the first social issues to split American Protestants into liberal and conservative camps.