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 ...

As the U.S. becomes more racially diverse, K-12 classrooms are too. But, the discussions surrounding diversity in history classrooms are advancing at a much slower pace. Often, the history taught in ...

History and philosophy of education chart how societies imagine, organise and justify the cultivation of human capacities. The historical strand ranges from nineteenth-century national accounts and ...

Why is most thinking about higher education's future mostly mediocre? Lots of reasons. Uncritical acceptance of applying (mostly discredited) business theories to academia. (Hello, disruptive ...

The creation of schools in every town for every child dates back to before the Revolutionary War. In 1647, Massachusetts became the first to establish a right to an education. The use of taxes, ...

Americans are increasingly polarized and public distrust in government is at record levels. What if the inability of Americans to agree on our shared history—and the right way to teach it—is a cause ...

I don’t know what you think, but I’m convinced that college faculty members ought to know much more than they do about the history and distinctiveness of American higher education. I think it’s fair ...

"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 we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and that our society goes to a great deal of trouble and expense to ...