Last night John Oliver, pointing out that he was an immigrant himself, took on the Senate's attempt to pass an immigration reform bill. But he knows that the bill, with its sad looking Schoolhouse ...

Parents from the 80’s and 90’s, do you remember singing along to Schoolhouse Rock in your elementary school classroom? Maybe your teacher brought out the big boxy television set on a rolling cart, ...

I was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in an Israeli household where Hebrew was spoken and international events were discussed almost exclusively. When I moved to Ohio in the early 90s, I was ...

"I usually enjoy a good morning hallucination." So began W.T. Woodson High School's energetic production of "Schoolhouse Rock Live!" The musical, based on the ABC-TV series that ran from 1973 to 1985, ...

A young generation befuddled by math began to learn the multiplication tables by singing “Three is a Magic Number.” That song, by Bob Dorough, first ran on children’s shows as a three-minute animation ...

The educational snippets are the ultimate font of Gen X nostalgia. But what is it we’re nostalgic for? By James Poniewozik When I was in second grade, my teacher held a contest: The first students to ...