THE FREEDOM TO LEARN IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

How do today’s attacks on public education compare with those in the past? How can history inform our responses to educational censorship in the present? This summer and fall, the Washington Post’s Made by History section, in partnership with PEN America, has published the Freedom to Learn series - a group of ten essays by academic historians providing historical context for the current assault on public education. In this webinar, PEN America’s Jeremy C. Young and Made by History series editor Diana D’Amico-Pawlewicz discuss the creation of the series; and D’Amico-Pawlewicz moderates a discussion among Freedom to Learn authors about what their work tells us about the past, present, and future of public education.
PEN America is grateful to Made by History for their partnership and editorial direction of the Freedom to Learn series, and to Lumina Foundation for their generous sponsorship of this webinar.