May 9, 1968: Black and Puerto Rican parents in Brooklyn take over the management of their children’s failing schools.

1955: A year after the Supreme Court ordered public schools to desegregate, the libertarian economist Milton Friedman published a paper introducing a voucher system that would allow white parents to use public funds to attend private schools

Killing the African to Save the Child!

Following the season of heavy rains, October is springtime in the Horn of Africa, erupting in colors so riotous—a powdery blue sky, gleaming yellow daffodils and foliage greener than reality—that the landscape seems a kind of earthen womb, birthing a renewed and...

Columbia University complies with the Trump administration’s demands to put the School of Middle Eastern Studies under receivership.

In a keynote speech at Harvard University President Lawrence Summers asserts that innate gender differences largely explained women’s underrepresentation in science fields.