education

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.

“I’m amazed at how numb many of us can be about these sites.”

The Quaker spiritual journey, often invisible due to its silent, humble and individual nature, is illustrated in this map.

To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s.

Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom.

What’s happening amid the coronavirus pandemic is nothing new.

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.

As Frederick Douglass’s master put it, a slave who learned to read and write against the will of his master was tantamount to “running away with himself.”

Clyde Bellecourt taught Native people that colonizing society is weak because of its sense of superiority.

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

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California.

In the 17th century, Dutch proselytisers set out for Asia, Africa and the Americas. The legacy of their travels endures.

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

Today, drowning rates are disproportionately high among Black children. What’s being done?

"My job as your mother is to tell you these stories differently, and to tell you other stories that don’t get told at school.”

For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.

She used her work to live an autonomous life in a time when women were often trapped by socially constructed gender roles and systematic oppression.