School dinners are changing: the strong emotions and memories around these meals reflect their social, economical and cultural importance

Much of the coverage has focused on specific menu changes, including the possible removal of sugary desserts such as steamed ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

CityLine: The overlooked history of school busing in Chinatown

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

American Schools Have Been Feeding Children for More Than 100 Years. Here’s How the School Lunch Has Changed

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 ...
WHYY

Food fight: The history of the school lunch at Philly’s Science History Institute

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, ...
PBS

Researchers unearth the painful history of a Native boarding school in Missouri

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 ...
Time

The History of School Desegregation Reveals That the Job Isn't Done Yet

1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. 1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at ...
Education Week

Rick Hess Straight Up

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 ...