C. A. Langerud

Let's keep right-wing propaganda out of our public schools.

Check out yesterday's episode of NPR's On Point, where we talked about the many creepy dangers of PragerU's terrible content.
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

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Queer of Color Critique and the Politics of Epistemic Agency: Rural Educators Desettling Curricular Expectations The purpose of this research is to use queer of color critique (QOCC) as an analytical framework to explore rural K-12 educators’ epistemic agency. The research focuses on educators’ engagement with a...

Excited to share my new article on how rural K–12 educators exercise epistemic agency and navigate local politics to keep inclusive curriculum alive amid book-banning efforts.

doi.org/10.60808/v9k...

07.02.2026 01:42 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Critical education in an age of authoritarianism At its best, education refuses to accept the world as presented by the powerful, the financial elite, or the enablers of fascism. This is why authoritarian regimes relentlessly target teachers, univer...

My article on critical education in the age of authoritarianism, co-authored with Will Paul, just appeared in Canadian Dimension.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

21.01.2026 18:22 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A General Air of Anxiety The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

The parallels between the Red Scare of the 1950s and today’s assault on higher ed remind us of the need to join communities of resistance.

Read Joan Wallach Scott (former chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure) on the stakes of defending higher ed as a public good.

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Critical Education in the Age of Trump’s Fascist Politics To protect democracy, the classroom must remain a space of freedom, not fear

My article on Critical Education in the Age of Trump’s Fascist Politics has just been published in the Cairo Review.
www.thecairoreview.com/essays/criti...

05.01.2026 16:59 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1