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Although most will claim it as their guiding philosophy, today’s educrats might find some alarming skeletons in the closet of their progressive forefathers of a century ago.

Every year, freshmen at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia get to hear former President Jimmy Carter lecture on world affairs.

Education experts ask whether No Child Left Behind is worth it.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History traces America’s history from the pilgrims to the Clinton years, drawing on some rarely seen historical quotations.

Although federal spending on education has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years, standardized test scores have stagnated or even declined, notes a Cato Institute scholar.

The Democrat party’s radical ideology, the nation’s welfare state and the existing educational system detrimentally impact black Americans in poor communities Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. explains in his forthcoming book, “Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime, & Politics for a Better America.” The title, coauthored with Nancy French and published […]

Field trips to museums in Washington, D.C. are nothing new but the latest archive in our nation’s capital may break records set by other museums in the Smithsonian network. The much-heralded National African-American Museum of History and Culture, part of the historic Smithsonian Institution and museums, does not live up to the historical accuracy it […]

Instead of improved quality and decreased spending on education, the government continues to spend more and more while results remain stagnant. “According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress – a standardized test often referred to as the nation’s ‘report card’ – just 26 percent of the country’s 12th graders are proficient in math,” Lindsay […]

The professor rationalized that today’s economy makes it essential to extend these benefits as employment is unstable.

Scholars who go against the academic grain and suffer the consequences for their apostasy have pinned some hopes for change on developing technology.

Professors generous with their time and ideas frequently concoct policies that U.S. presidents of both parties adopt.

So many generations have been taught that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended the Depression that it has become an article of faith for historians in and out of academia and, naturally, their media acolytes.