038 Classroom Wars! The History Behind the Fights over Bilingual Ed and Sex Ed in US Public Schools

Summary: This week In The Past Lane, the history podcast, asks: What do the controversies in the 1960s and 1970s surrounding sex education and bilingual education have to do with each other? I talk with historian Natalia Petrzela to talk about her book, Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture. It examines the history of education policy and how it both reflected and shaped political discourse