What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

Hundreds of PreK-12 teaching and learning resources that support developmentally appropriate skill-building and leverage both well-known and lesser-known stories in American history are freely ...

Students took what they could get in the 1950s at Stanford. “This was not a time in which people raised big questions about what they were being taught,” history and humanities professor emeritus ...

School – and the federal government's role in it – has been a topic of debate in the U.S. since the very first Department of Education was created. School and the federal government's role in it has ...

President Trump is reportedly preparing to shrink or potentially dismantle the Department of Education through executive action. Abolishing the Department of Education was part of Project 2025, the ...

The teaching of Black history in segregated schools has a long history. After emancipation, freed people in the American South flocked to newly established schools to learn to read and write but also ...

"Education, education, education" was at the heart of Tony Blair's pitch to the British public in the run-up to the 1997 general election. Now, 27 years on, the issue is still a central plank of ...

When people think about Black history in schools, they might think of the new Advanced Placement African American Studies course that Florida’s education department banned. Or perhaps their minds go ...

Education has gotten polarized and hotly political over the past few years. This has frustrated many who thought that we’d entered a new, more bipartisan era of schooling in the 1990s and early 2000s.