Making Americans with Jessica Lander
Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast
03/18/23
•50m
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Join me this week as I sit down with educator and author Jessica Lander to review her new book Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education.
Lander takes readers on a historical journey through the ways in which education for immigrants has evolved in the United States and contrasts it with some of the amazing work still being done by educators and students alike.
To learn more about Jessica, please head to her website at www.jessicalander.com and for show notes and other source material, please visit www.civicsandcoffee.com
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