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 ...
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 ...
School lunch has evolved quite a bit over the last century. Serving a standard lunch to school children started, in both Europe and the United States, with private organizations who were interested in ...
There used to be no rules for school transportation. Kids went to school in horse-drawn wagons and some districts had red white and blue buses, to instill patriotism. That changed with this guy: Frank ...
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 ...
Leaders and stakeholders in the early movement to desegregate Boston school reflected on buried experiences and lessons of the period at the first forum marking the upcoming 50th anniversary of the ...
Pleasant Plains School in Hertford County, N.C. operated as a Rosenwald School from 1920 to 1950. Photo by Andrew Feiler. In 1911, Booker T. Washington met Julius Rosenwald. The meeting between the ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — School policing first began in 1950. And shortly after the mass school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, funding increased and more schools began utilizing resource ...
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, ...