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Fireside Chat: Joseph Lancaster and the ‘Delusion’ of Public Schools (Dr. Adam Laats)

Dr. Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History at Binghamton University (State University of New York). He completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 2007. He is the author of several books, including Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education (Harvard University Press, 2015). Prof. Laats was a short-term McNeil Fellow at the Library Company during the month of June 2019.

This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 2020.

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