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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The fields of history and philosophy of education interrogate the evolution of educational ideas and practices, tracing their roots from classical antiquity to contemporary times. Historically, ...

"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 ...