You Can't Teach That!: The Battle Over University Classrooms

by Keith E. Whittington

Book Overview

Who controls what is taught in American universities - professors or politicians?

The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can be promoted and discussed in university classrooms. Professors at public universities have long assumed that their freedom to teach is unassailable and that there were firm constitutional protections shielding them from political interventions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509564527
• ISBN13: 9781509564521
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"