NYU Professor to Give Lecture on Teachers' Rights

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Jonathan Zimmerman

Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of education and history at New York University, will give a lecture about teachers’ rights at noon Friday, Feb. 7, on the University of Arkansas campus.

 Zimmerman’s lecture is titled “You Can’t Say That: ‘Controversial Issues’ and Teacher Rights in American History.” He is also director of the History of Education program in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

Zimmerman has written three books: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory, Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century and Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools.  

The lecture is part of the series sponsored by the department of education reform and is free and open to the public. It starts at noon in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building, and RSVP is requested for a light lunch. RSVP online by 1 p.m. Feb. 5.

Links to papers and articles written by Zimmerman can be found on the lecture series website.