The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

Black politicians during the Reconstruction era played a critical role in the creation and development of the U.S. public ...

President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law. Although it was not a cabinet level ...

President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. His efforts are history repeating itself.

When Theodore Johnson was a young boy in Raleigh, North Carolina, he and his family had to be strategic to make ends meet.

Trump signed an executive order aimed at expanding private school vouchers. Some education experts told BI it could put ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

One study showed Black students are four times more likely to experience suspension than white students. But experts warn it’s not just elementary and high schools that could be impacted — higher ...

To understand American democratic society is to understand how liberalism and conservatism apply citizenship to individual ...

Immigrants have been a part of the foundation of what would be New York City, according to the state’s New York ...

Trump's call to potentially redirect federal funds for that use would mark "a huge ideological shift" in the conversation, said Derek Black ... of our education" and that universal vouchers ...