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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.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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