The 19th century Connecticut school sought to convert young men from Hawaii, China, India and the Native American nations and then send them home as Christian missionaries. It did not go as planned.

“This book is studied as part of the argument essay unit for the AP Lang exam,” teacher Mary Wood wrote regarding the book’s inclusion in her lesson plan, one of several documents related to ...

So it turns out that school officials agreed that a West Linn teacher crossed a line when he used sexual vulgarity, written on the board, as a part of a classroom lesson on censorship at Athey ...