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For More Than a Century, Policymakers Have Mishandled Rural Schools

Consolidation aimed to bring cutting-edge reforms to rural schools. Instead, it hurt kids and communities.
by Paul Theobald via Made By History on August 19, 2021
Students in classroom

Which is Better: School Integration or Separate, Black-Controlled Schools?

Historical perspective on school integration.
by Zoë Burkholder via OUPblog on August 11, 2021
Students at Colby College

Harvard–Riverside, Round Trip

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.
by Mitchell L. Stevens via Public Books on August 11, 2021
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Special Education: The 50-Year Fight for the Right to Learn

Today’s special education system was shaped five decades ago, when parents fought for disabled children’s right to learn.
by Karen M. Sughrue, Michael Kranz, Heru Muharrar via Retro Report on June 24, 2021
Dr. Lawrence Matsuda portrait, 2015, Painting by Alfredo M. Arreguin

Japanese Internment, Seattle in the 50s, and the First Asian-American History Class in Washington

Lawrence Matsuda talks about his family history, his experiences of discrimination, and his work in bilingual and Asian American representation in education.
by Lawrence Matsuda, Casey McNerthney via History Link on June 16, 2021
A second grade teacher and her students pledge allegiance to the flag circa 1970.

Is There an Uncontroversial Way to Teach America’s Racist History?

A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.
by Jarvis R. Givens, Sean Illing via Vox on June 11, 2021
Pleasant Plains School in Hertford County, North Carolina, active 1920-1950.

How the Rosenwald Schools Shaped a Generation of Black Leaders

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented how the educational institutions shaped a generation of black leaders.
by Michael J. Solender via Smithsonian on March 30, 2021
A WPA poster styled man in a field with a Mac laptop and earbud instead of farm implements.

The New National American Elite

America is now ruled by a single elite class rather than by local patrician smart sets competing with each other for money and power.
by Michael Lind via Tablet on January 20, 2021
African American women with signs promoting voter registration, 1956

Things Ain’t Always Gone Be This Way

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on how her mother overcame voter suppression and became an activist in her community.
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers via Kenyon Review on December 1, 2020
Ruby Bridges

Is the Public Education That Ruby Bridges Fought to Integrate a Relic of the Past?

Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another battle engulfing public education.
by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator, Meg White via The Conversation on November 13, 2020
young George Floyd

Born With Two Strikes

How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition.
by Toluse Olorunnipa, Griff Witte via Washington Post on October 8, 2020

The Firsts

The children who desegregated America.
by Adam Harris, Rebecca Rosen via The Atlantic on September 29, 2020
An old school auditorium

L’Ouverture High School: Race, Place, and Memory in Oklahoma

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.
by Erica Johnson Edwards via Age of Revolutions on September 28, 2020
Protestors standing on a bridge, holding signs.

Why 45% of NYC Public School Students Stayed Home in Protest

Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story.
by Olivia B. Waxman, Arpita Aneja via TIME on September 22, 2020

What’s New About Free College?

The fight over free education is much older than you think.
by Jay Swanson via Current Affairs on July 8, 2020
Young demonstraters from Los Angeles in La Marcha Por La Justicia, 1971.

The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s

Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.
by Samuel Farber via Jacobin on June 29, 2020
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School Interrupted

The movement for school desegregation took some of its first steps with a student strike in rural Virginia. Ed Ayers learns about those who made it happen.
via Future Of America's Past on March 23, 2020
Photograph of Michael Lind wearing a blazer and tie.

Michael Lind on Reviving Democracy

To fix things, we must acknowledge the nature of the problem.
by Michael Lind, Aaron Sibarium via The American Interest on January 29, 2020
U.V.A. Inauguration Day 1921

Jefferson’s Shadow

On the occasion of its bicentennial, and in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, UVA confronts its history.
by Brendan Wolfe via Medium on January 29, 2020
Big Bird on the set of 'Sesame Street'

The Unmistakable Black Roots of 'Sesame Street'

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.
by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian on November 7, 2019

An Attempt to Resegregate Little Rock, of All Places

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on October 22, 2019

The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated

A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn’t being done on purpose.
by Jon Hale via The Conversation on July 24, 2019

Are You a Seg Academy Alum, Too? Let’s Talk.

Reflecting on the impact of an education in an institution deliberately set up to defy court-ordered desegregation.
by Ellen Ann Fentress via The Bitter Southerner on June 7, 2019

Jefferson, Adams, and the SAT’s New Adversity Factor

Discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that somewhere around the next bend is the right way to do it.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 23, 2019

How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College

A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.
by Tamara Gilkes Borr via The Atlantic on May 15, 2019

The Decline of Historical Thinking

For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.
by Eric Alterman via The New Yorker on February 4, 2019
Black and white girls in a classroom.

The Secret Network of Black Teachers Behind the Fight for Desegregation

African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.
by Vanessa Siddle Walker, Melinda D. Anderson via The Atlantic on August 9, 2018

The Defiant Ones

As young girls, they fought the fierce battle to integrate America’s schools half a century ago.
by Amy Crawford via Smithsonian on June 1, 2018

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.
by Matthew Stewart via The Atlantic on May 16, 2018
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush at the funeral of US Senator Zell Miller
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The Democratic Program That Killed Liberalism

How Democrats like Zell Miller and Bill Clinton exacerbated inequality in education
by Jonathan D. Cohen via Made By History on March 28, 2018
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