Feb 9, 2023
PEN America’s Nadine Farid Johnson joins the podcast to talk about the status of “educational gag orders” at the state level, or the legislative efforts to restrict K-12 and college teaching on topics like race, gender, American history, and LGBTQ+ identities. Beyond instruction, we’re also now seeing potential restrictions on tenure, gag orders on reproductive health, and services provided to transgender students. What does the upswing in activities by state legislatures in the ramp up to the 2024 election mean? Could these gag orders happen at the federal level?
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
COVID State of Emergency Ends in
May; Federal Pandemic Aid was Key to Supporting Students
ACE | Feb. 6, 2023
More than 100 House Republicans File
Amicus Brief on Biden Student Loan Forgiveness
The Hill | Feb. 3, 2023
Campus Free Speech
PEN America
Education Gag Orders
PEN America
PEN America Index of Educational Gag Orders
In Higher Education, New Educational
Gag Orders Would Exert Unprecedented Control Over College
Teaching
PEN America | Feb. 1, 2022
ACE Statement on Open Academic Inquiry (2022)
Florida Rejects A.P. African
American Studies Class
The New York Times | Jan. 19, 2023
Will a Small, Quirky Florida College
Become ‘DeSantis U’?
The Washington Post | Jan. 23, 2023
DeSantis Aims To Cut College
Diversity Efforts; New College Ousts President
The Washington Post | Jan. 31, 2023
Education Issues Vault to Top of the
G.O.P.’s Presidential Race
The New York Times | Feb. 2, 2023
Attempt to Defund UW Gender Studies
Fails Again
Casper Star Tribune | Feb. 3, 2023