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 ...

Last year the remains of 215 children were found in unmarked graves on the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children in British Columbia. The news was shocking, but among Indigenous ...

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 ...

Installation view, Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories, Heard Museum (photo by Craig Smith, courtesy the Heard Museum) Golden leaves suggesting Indigenous ancestors shimmer in a ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS – In the last two years, Canada and several U.S. states have begun to recognize their histories with Native American boarding schools, institutions that set out to "assimilate" Native ...

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 ...