Adam Laats

Trump's education vision echoes the Founding Era: vouchers, privatization, and apprenticeships risk inequality, education deserts, and child labor abuse.

America's public schools were founded on the ideal of uniting rich and poor, but inequality persists due to racial, income, and systemic divides.

Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.

Yelling about schools gets people riled up. The outcome can be unpredictable.

Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

Conservatives’ veneration for the founders opens the door for a secular vision for America’s public schools.

For two centuries, America had kept questions of church and state at bay. The country is not ready for the ones to come.

As conservative groups give up on public schools, the fight today is about looting public resources.

And why spying on the “bums” has been terrible for schools.

A century ago, the most effective school-ban campaign in American history set the pattern: noise and fear, but not much change in what schools actually teach.

Conservatives can’t turn back the clock. But they can disrupt local meetings.

How 20th-century curriculum controversies foreshadowed this summer’s wave of legislation.

When it comes to education technology, school leaders have often leaped before they looked.

Government-funded schools evolved from a broader system of public education that couldn't provide what students needed.