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The Works Progress Administration employed some Spanish-Americans from New Mexico, as seen here, to work in road gangs.
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Centennial Seal of the Land Grant Colleges
The 1862 Morrill Act Honored the Liberal Arts As Well As Technical Education
The Great Dome at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act
Children at Play: An American History, by Howard Chudacoff Book Cover
Children at Play: An American History
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover
Playing Politics with Our Children's Health
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.
Wagging the Dog
Children eating a meal as part of the School Lunch program at a classroom in Maryland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary Dr. Janey Thornton is present for an event to launch International School Meals Day on March 8, 2013. The class is video conferencing to a school in Ayrshire, Scotland, with some of their children visible on the screens.
Today’s School Feeding Programs Grew Out of the “Penny Lunch” Tradition of a Century Ago
Vegetables from ecological farming.
Bringing Democrats and Republicans Together over Food
Stock photo of a pen on paper.
History News Service Feeds Popular Hunger for Good History and Good Journalism
President Obama signing the new student loan legislation in March 2010.
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy
President George W. Bush signs "No Child Left Behind" into law in 2002.
Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same
British scientist Charles Darwin.
Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts
A 1940s photo of a church in Kansas.
Those Who Abuse the Past Are Bound to Misunderstand It
A teacher and her students in an elementary school classroom.
When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right
Engraving of René Descartes.
A Triumph for Religion as Well as Science
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957.
The Unfinished Business of School Desegregation
Integrated classroom in 1955.
The Long-Term Legacies of Brown v. Board
Pakistan to US Student Exchange Program, July 2011.
Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well
neon sign that says Quiz with question marks around it
History Teaching: Still Crazy After All These Years
Glass negative of Woodrow Wilson from the Library of Congress.
Television Biography: History Lite
Painting of Alexander Hamilton.
A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund
Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
Ivy and Slavery
Mount Holyoke College
Historical Truth and Personal Truths
Image of a junior high school classroom from Harris & Ewing Photographs.
An Historic Opportunity in Education