history education

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.

Any true reckoning with racism must include our schools.

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

At Boston Latin School teachers are changing the way they prepare their students to think critically about immigration policy.

Gameplay can be useful in history classrooms – but manufacturers have to think about how children will be affected by the competition.

A new curriculum from the American Indian Museum brings greater depth and understanding to the long-misinterpreted history of indigenous culture.

The pessimism of some historians does an injustice to marginalized people of the past and can produce cynicism in students.

If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.

For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.

In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, no undergraduate area of study has fallen off more than history.

What if America's inability to agree on its shared history—and how to teach it—is a cause of our polarization and political dysfunction, rather than a symptom?

We’re not equipping children to become good citizens.

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

Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.

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It's not enough to say that they pick up critical thinking skills. It's time to offer evidence.

A new study suggests that high school students lack a basic knowledge of the role slavery played in shaping the United States.

Projected to earn $1 billion and earning Tony-Award glory, 'Hamilton' the musical is still going strong in backyards and classrooms across the country.