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 important to our understanding of history and culture in ...

The Basilica School of St. Mary has a permanent exhibit celebrating the history of Catholic education. “Christ Yesterday & Today: A History of Catholic Education,” is unique to the diocese.

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 been a topic of debate in this country since the very ...

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 James Sheehan ’58 said in an interview with The Daily.

Whether over creationism or gender identity, bitter political fights have sprung up around what sorts of ideas should be taught in public schools. Education is often touted as a tool of social mobility meant to help students access well-paying jobs, but ...

A conversation with Eve L. Ewing about the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy and her book Original Sins. Eve L. Ewing Eve L. Ewing has spent much of her career examining inequities in our educational system, in works such as Ghosts in the ...

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