I n February 1905 at around 10 o’clock at night, Henry James arrived in Palm Beach. He’d had a long trip — “the railway run from Jacksonville to Palm Beach begins early and ends late,” he writes in ...

Will Smithsonian employees be sent to gulags? Will the National Museum of African American History and Culture close?

The recent attack on universities by the US is reminiscent of the McCarthy era and its chilling impact on academic freedom. Globally, these developments and the coercive tactics used against Columbia ...

Stanford University A Conversation with Neil Postman on Democracy: Does the Television Make Us Stupid?      Winston Lee Mark ...

Unlike Black children who had to leave their neighborhoods to seek an education, white children in Boston had the option to ...

South Korean President Yoon's declaration of martial law in December was a wake-up call for Korean citizens, especially the ...

Sociologist Eve L. Ewing joins The Excerpt to discuss her new book “Original Sins,” which argues that schools enforce racial hierarchies.

How did I, my parents, grandparents and ancestors going back to the founding of the nation manage to get a decent education before the federal Department of Education (DOE) was ...

How did I, my parents, grandparents and ancestors going back to the founding of the nation manage to get a decent education before the federal Department of Education (DOE) was created by Jimmy Carter ...

The governor gave the final nod of approval to the Civics Education Amendments and Center for Civic Excellence at Utah State ...

Standardised testing has been tried and scrapped before. But with a tender for a new ‘standardised assessment tool’, the ...