In the U.S. and all over the world, residential schools, or Indian boarding schools, forcibly fractured Indigenous cultures. The implication that these institutions were just “schools” does little to ...

Philadelphia children eating a "three-cent dinner" at school, featured in the 1913 book School Feeding: Its History and Practice at Home and Abroad Science History Institute A new exhibition in ...

School choice has exploded in recent years. Is this development as novel as our heated debates suggest? Neal McCluskey, the former director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, is ...

News that MPS' Lincoln Avenue School, 1817 W. Lincoln Ave. on the South Side, was lost to fire on Tuesday morning hit the community hard. Here is a quick look at the history of the 1917 school ...

This browser does not support the video element. For the first time since President Harry Truman signed the National School Lunch Act in 1946, the Agriculture Department is proposing limiting added ...

School choice has exploded in recent years. Is this development as novel as our heated debates suggest? Neal McCluskey, the former director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, is ...

For much of American history, schools have been seen primarily as places for children to learn academics like reading, writing and arithmetic. Over time, educators, health professionals and ...

I’M KAREN HOLMES WARD WARD. THE PROCESS OF DESEGREGATE DATING BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND INFAMOUS TIMES IN THIS CITY’S HISTORY. IN JUNE 1974, FEDERAL JUDGE ARTHUR ...

An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

Yakama bands once gathered at Mool Mool springs in what is now Washington state to use the area’s bubbling waters for medicinal purposes. In 1855, the Yakama bands signed a treaty that ceded millions ...