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 ...

Every February, I remind Education Week readers that the forefather of Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson, meant for the occasion to be a time when schools and communities would celebrate the ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's still a long way to go.

I recently interviewed Jarvis R. Givens, a professor of education and African and African American studies at Harvard University. His new book, I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black ...

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 ...

"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 ...