Karsonya Wise Whitehead helped introduce Freedom Schools, a free program dedicated to helping raise student literacy while ...
A conversation with Eve L. Ewing about the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy and her book Original Sins.
The United States Department of Education was officially created by Congress during the Carter Administration.
The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a new, more conservative social studies agenda that has irked even some ...
Demsas: I want to situate us in the history of the rise of state-led primary education. Before reading your book, I think I hadn’t really taken in the short timeline that we’re talking about ...
Read More: A Brief History of Efforts to End the Department of Education In 1867, President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law. Although it was not a cabinet ...