For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff is joined by education policy journalist Jennifer Berkshire and education historian Jack Schneider to discuss the latest in the right-wing attacks on public schools, including the recent spate of book bans and Wisconsin’s new “parental bill of rights.”

Jennifer Berkshire writes about education and politics for the Nation, the New Republic, the Washington Post, and other publications. She teaches in the journalism program at Boston College and the labor studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School (New Press, 2020) and co-host of the education policy podcast Have You Heard.

Jack Schneider is an education historian and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School (New Press, 2020) and co-host of the education policy podcast Have You Heard.

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