School children are spaced apart in one of the rooms used for lunch at Woodland Elementary School in Milford, Massachusetts. The school opened in fall 2020 using a hybrid model. President-elect Joe Biden has made reopening a majority of K–8 schools for in-person instruction a priority for his administration’s firstContinue Reading
Sal Khan, founder and CEO, Khan Academy, started Schoolhouse.world to connect students to teachers, peers, and professionals to get personalized help with learning questions. The Texas Retired Teachers Foundation has launched an online tutoring program to offer 250,000 hours of live tutoring by retired educators to students in classrooms orContinue Reading
The senior director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Education, Lance Izumi, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Izumi’s new research, which details the obstacles students trapped in failing schools face when trying to switch to charter schools Izumi’s research brief, “New Obstacles Hinder Students Trapped in Failing SchoolsContinue Reading
How did you do? Share your result on social media to see how your knowledge of Queen Victoria compares with other HistoryExtra readers! Want to improve your knowledge? Read more about Queen Victoria – one of history’s most iconic monarchs: Your guide to Queen Victoria and a timeline of her lifeContinue Reading
The history of vaccination began formally in 1798, when Edward Jenner showed that inoculating healthy subjects with cowpox, a mild disease of cattle, protected them against smallpox. This was momentous news, as smallpox was one of humanity’s greatest scourges, killing one person in 12 worldwide and all but wiping outContinue Reading
Gareth Williams, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Bristol, traces historical efforts to vaccinate populations against killer infections – from Edward Jenner’s eureka moment with smallpox in 18th-century England to rival scientists’ bitter battle to conquer polio in 1950s America. Read more: Gareth Williams explores four previous attemptsContinue Reading
2018 marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s murder. Gunned down outside his hotel room in Memphis, where he was in town to support a refuse workers’ strike, it was his last effort to broaden his work beyond race and call attention to the deserved dignity of all people, regardlessContinue Reading
1 1851: The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition of 1851 was Britain’s glittering shop window and showcase for the world’s attention and admiration. The first and greatest industrial power, the greatest imperial power, and the greatest naval power was, in effect, showing off its extraordinary achievements and at the sameContinue Reading
Kensington Palace, London, six in the morning. Princess Victoria is woken by her mother and told that two men are there to see her. She rises quickly, throws a dressing-gown over her nightdress and, with her fair hair still loose about her shoulders, receives the two visitors in her sitting-room.Continue Reading
Did the Sixties really swing? Why did the decade see such an explosion of popular culture? And what were the top sellers in the supermarket? Historian, author and broadcaster Dominic Sandbrook answers popular search queries and questions you submitted about Britain in the 1960s. How to download the HistoryExtra podcastContinue Reading
