In the U.S. and all over the world, residential schools, or Indian boarding schools, forcibly fractured Indigenous cultures. The implication that these institutions were just “schools” does little to ...

School choice has exploded in recent years. Is this development as novel as our heated debates suggest? Neal McCluskey, the former director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, is ...

On a hot afternoon last summer, Riverside Indian School drew a crowd from all over Oklahoma. Elders and family members drove hours to pile into the residential school's gymnasium. They filled the ...

School choice has exploded in recent years. Is this development as novel as our heated debates suggest? Neal McCluskey, the former director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, is ...

Philadelphia children eating a "three-cent dinner" at school, featured in the 1913 book School Feeding: Its History and Practice at Home and Abroad Science History Institute A new exhibition in ...

Yakama bands once gathered at Mool Mool springs in what is now Washington state to use the area’s bubbling waters for medicinal purposes. In 1855, the Yakama bands signed a treaty that ceded millions ...

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Installation view, Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories, Heard Museum (photo by Craig Smith, courtesy the Heard Museum) Golden leaves suggesting Indigenous ancestors shimmer in a ...

So much of who we are and who we can become starts in the classroom. Education can be a life-changing part of our story, impacting our career path, salary, and even the lives of the generations that ...

Last year the remains of 215 children were found in unmarked graves on the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children in British Columbia. The news was shocking, but among Indigenous ...

An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

I’M KAREN HOLMES WARD WARD. THE PROCESS OF DESEGREGATE DATING BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND INFAMOUS TIMES IN THIS CITY’S HISTORY. IN JUNE 1974, FEDERAL JUDGE ARTHUR ...