I went looking for the "again" in "Make Education Great Again." I found boarding schools, censored textbooks, and segregation academies.

I went looking for the "again" in "Make Education Great Again." I found boarding schools, censored textbooks, and segregation academies.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Education posted an image to Facebook styled like an old woodcut print, with President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon above the words MEGA and “Make Education Great Again.” The slogan reminded me of a poem I read in high school: Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again.” Published in 1936, the poem considers the distance between the country’s promise of liberty and equality and the live…