Not too long ago, most education discussions centered around budgets and test scores. But today it can feel like the public school system has been pulled to the center of all the nation's most ...

Hot-button issues like school choice, immigration and state control raised serious questions about education in Tennessee in recent years. After a statewide expansion of school vouchers and a ...

Lately there’s been much hand-wringing punditry about the education “culture wars,” with the mainstream media blaming right-wing extremists for heated fights over social studies, school boards, DEI ...

Over the course of nearly 400 years, public schools have often landed at the center of the most heated debates in the U.S. A look through the history of public schools in the U.S. and Tennessee ...

In 2021, a Tennessee high school teacher named Matthew Hawn was fired after assigning readings about white privilege and discussing race in his class—topics some parents said violated the state’s new ...