Teachers Under Fire
A Conversation with Professor Adam Laats
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 7 - 8 PM EST Via Zoom
A class in Public School No. 8 on King Street, in New York City, discusses a book titled “We Love America,” brought to school by one of the pupils.
Learn more about the history of how teachers have been inappropriately criticized and misunderstood by society– and what strategies they can use to weather the current social climate. This webinar is free and open to both educators and the general public.
Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History at Binghamton University (SUNY). He taught middle-school and high-school for ten years in Milwaukee. As a teacher, he wondered why schools tended to be such traditional, conservative places, even though so many people had worked for so long to make them more progressive. That question has been the subject of several books, including Creationism USA (Oxford University Press, 2020), Fundamentalist U (Oxford University Press, 2018), and The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education (Harvard University Press). He also offers commentary on schools, history, conservatism, and education at Slate, The Atlantic, and Washington Post. You can read his most recent article that was published in Slate on January 28th, 2021 entitled How Picking on Teachers Became an American Tradition by clicking here.
Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History at Binghamton University (SUNY). He taught middle-school and high-school for ten years in Milwaukee. As a teacher, he wondered why schools tended to be such traditional, conservative places, even though so many people had worked for so long to make them more progressive. That question has been the subject of several books, including Creationism USA (Oxford University Press, 2020), Fundamentalist U (Oxford University Press, 2018), and The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education (Harvard University Press). He also offers commentary on schools, history, conservatism, and education at Slate, The Atlantic, and Washington Post. You can read his most recent article that was published in Slate on January 28th, 2021 entitled How Picking on Teachers Became an American Tradition by clicking here.
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Date & Time:
-Wednesday, April 20, 2022
-Time: 7PM to 8PM, EST via zoom -Registration is Free - Co-sponsored by Erie 1 BOCES. Open to educators, students, and all community members interested. |