“It was the one thing that I loved about being Amish,” she says. She always loved school, even as a child, though now she understands her education lacked in key areas, like world histor ...

Amish people end formal education at the eighth grade, do not hold political office, restrict involvement with outsiders, selectively use modern technologies, and are conscientious objectors to war.

Despite variations between the many subgroups, the vast majority of Old Order Amish communities terminate formal education at the eighth grade, meet in homes for religious services, wear ...

Meantime, the chasidic schools, known as yeshivas, are beseeching President Trump’s education department for relief, calling ...

Leader, the state’s Democratic governor in the 1950s, who protected Amish education. Leader was raised on a chicken farm and ...