"We 3rd Grade Kids Don't Want To Go To the Circus": Freedom of Speech in Schools and the Right to Participation

CMEI Colloquium
Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
October 8, 2014

Dr. Lotem Perry-Hazan examined the distinction between children's rights to participation and freedom of speech in school, how these rights are expressed in different situations, and how they can be utilized to shape policy.

Speaker Biography:

Lotem Perry-Hazan is the Head of the Educational Management Program at the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education at Haifa University Faculty of Education. She is a graduate of NYU School of Law (LL.M. Vanderbilt Scholar, 2006) and the University of Haifa Faculty of Law (LL.B. summa cum laude, 2004; Ph.D. summa cum laude, 2011). In 2004-2005 she clerked for Dorit Beinisch, the former Honorable Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. Her research interests include the right to education, the role of law in educational policy, children's rights in school and multiculturalism in education.