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Jennifer Berkshire: The Education Wars
February 13 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join us on February 13 at noon (MST) as special guest Jennifer Berkshire discusses her book The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual.
Her new book outlines the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes, and laying out what is at stake for parents, teachers, and students.
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Jennifer Berkshire writes about education and politics for the Nation, the New Republic, the Washington Post, and other publications. The creator and co-host of the education policy podcast “Have You Heard” she teaches aspiring podcasters in the journalism program at Boston College and the Labor Studies program at UMass Amherst. Berkshire discovered her passion for storytelling while covering a series of bitter labor battles that wracked her native Midwest in the early 1990’s. Additionally, she’s the author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School (New Press, 2020). More here.