education

A new biography of Edith Hamilton tells the story of how and why ancient literature became widely read in the United States.

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

Literature is key to a healthy democracy, but schools are leaving books behind.

Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today’s kindergartners may never have to fill one out.

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.

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

The Founding Fathers made startlingly progressive statements that didn’t make it into popular history.

How the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom.

Even throwing off of a colonial power, representative institutions, Protestantism, and local autonomy in school decisions did not produce an egalitarian system.

The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project scrutinize official records not only for what they reveal, but also for what they omit.

Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?

How Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late nineteenth century.

How Robert Segovia used steelworkers and the Catholic Church to build a political machine in Chicago.

A teenage girl died by suicide after she started menstruating and not knowing what it was, in 1935. A bill in Florida wants to take us back to those times.

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.

What we fight about when we fight about schools.

None of it happened by mistake.

The fact that most doctors like me don't know how to perform abortions is one of the greatest scandals of contemporary medicine in the US.

A missed opportunity for genuine equity.

What we can learn from the work of the university administrator who went toe to toe with Howard Zinn.