A conversation with Eve L. Ewing about the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy and her book Original Sins.
Karsonya Wise Whitehead helped introduce Freedom Schools, a free program dedicated to helping raise student literacy while ...
This past January, Congress introduced H.R. 899 with one line: “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, ...
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 ...
The United States Department of Education was officially created by Congress during the Carter Administration.