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Fighting for the Freedom to Learn: Examining America’s Centuries-Old School Choice Movement

The school choice movement is often seen as a modern, partisan undermining of a cherished institution: public education. Fighting for the Freedom to Learn shows that the struggle for educational freedom is not new but an enduring part of US history. It is rooted in traditions of parents and communities shaping how children learn and perpetual struggles for people without political power to get the education they believe they need.

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Book cover: Fighting for the Freedom to Learn: Examining the Nation’s Centuries-Old School Choice Movement
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Fighting for the Freedom to Learn

The school choice movement is often seen as a modern, partisan undermining of a cherished institution: public education. Fighting for the Freedom to Learn sets the record straight, revealing that the struggle for educational freedom is as old as America itself and rooted in a deep and enduring tradition of parents and communities shaping how children learn.

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James Shuls portrait
James Shuls

Head, Education Liberty Branch, Institute for Governance and Civics, Florida State University

Ethan Hutt
Ethan Hutt

Associate Professor, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill