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The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1673: School Libraries And Free Speech

Published October 14, 2022 at 3:00 PM EDT

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PEN AMERICA

Jonathan Friedman, PEN America’s director of free expression and education, joins The Best of Our Knowledge to explain how a more debate around what should be present in public school libraries might impact not just free speech, but public education as a whole.

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