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In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools.

The sudden push to rename a historic school that educated scores of Black students reeks of revenge.

Conservatives can’t turn back the clock. But they can disrupt local meetings.

Ryan White changed perceptions of the disease in the United States.

On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.

It was no coincidence that public school secularization and desegregation were happening, and failing, simultaneously.

Fifty years ago, parents united to get the far-right John Birch Society out of their schools.

What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent protests in West Virginia.

Yelling about schools gets people riled up. The outcome can be unpredictable.

The Temecula Valley school board in Southern California wants to erase gay rights leader Harvey Milk from history, defaming him as a “pedophile” in the process.

A massive protest by Mexican American high school students was a milestone in a movement for Chicano rights.

Library book bans are fueling national fights and a new Florida lawsuit. But only one case has come before the Supreme Court: Island Trees v. Pico.

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

In both versions of this question, the assumption is that there’s a pure history out there somewhere, perhaps with answers in the appendix.

A century ago, the most effective school-ban campaign in American history set the pattern: noise and fear, but not much change in what schools actually teach.

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

In 1974, the culture wars came to Kanawha County, West Virginia, inciting protests over school curriculum.

During the heyday of the Chicano Movement, school walkouts were organized to disrupt what activists called “the ongoing mis-education of Chicano students.”

Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another battle engulfing public education.

State efforts to usurp local government power over schools, elections, and police tend to diminish Black political power.

An anti-Vietnam protest that resulted in the Supreme Court confirming that students are persons under the constitution.

One young conservative lawyer would lead a determined fight to maintain Lewis Powell’s blindfolded race neutrality.

Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.

APAAS, Florida, and history.

What we fight about when we fight about schools.

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.

Channeling conservative, white anger about public schools is a long-running political strategy.

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

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

Finally embracing teachers' original vision could help us rethink education after covid.