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The right to learn : resisting the right-wing attack on academic freedom / edited by Valerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Johnson, Valerie C., editor.
Ruth, Jennifer, editor.
Schrecker, Ellen, editor.
ProQuest ebook central
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Academic freedom--United States.
Academic freedom.
Teaching, Freedom of--United States.
Teaching, Freedom of.
Universities and colleges--Curricula--United States.
Universities and colleges.
Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.
Education, Higher.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 225 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Boston : Beacon Press, [2024]
Contents:
Foreword / by Irene Mulvey
Introduction: A time for faculty to act / Valerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker
Academic freedom and political repression from McCarthyism to Trump / Ellen Schrecker
A Koch-funded racial backlash : understanding the Critical Race Theory moral panic / Isaac Kamola
The rise of educational gag orders / Jonathan Friedman, Jeremy C. Young, and James Tager
The epistemology of ignorance and its impact on democracy and higher education / Valerie C. Johnson
Knowledge and good community organizing can counter the "Divisive Concepts" campaign / Kevin McGruder
Subverting the intent of the fourteenth amendment / Dennis Parker
"Don't Say gay" and Can't be trans : behind the anti-LGBTQ+ schooling agenda / Sonnet Gabbard, Anne Mitchell, and Heather Montes Ireland
The resolutions : mobilizing faculty senates to defend academic freedom / Jennifer Ruth
Silence gets us nowhere : faculty responses to anti-CRT and divisive cncepts legislation / Sarah Sklaw
Academic freedom : it's a question of job security / Helena Worthen and Joe Berry
My battle to preserve academic freedom at the University of Florida / Sharon D. Wright Austin
Florida faculty unions and the struggle for public education / Katie Rainwater
Schools of education under fire / Marvin Lynn, Michael E. Dantley, and Lynn M. Gangone.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-225).
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
ISBN:
9780807045176 (electronic bk.)
0807045179 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Number:
99996383218
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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