Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center Hosts Max Eden of the Manhattan Institute
Federal education policy scholar describes “How the Department of Education Makes Schools Less Safe”
On Thursday, April 26, Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship will host a lecture from Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture series. Eden’s lecture, titled “How the Department of Education Makes Schools Less Safe,” draws on his experience as an education policy scholar to explore the current school safety and gun control debate.
Mr. Eden is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute studying federal education policy, school choice and early education. He was previously the education policy studies department program manager at the American Enterprise Institute and is a co-editor, alongside Frederick M. Hess, of The Every Student Succeeds Act: What It Means for Schools, Systems and States. His work has also been published in academic journals and national media outlets, including Journal of School Choice, Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance, The Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, The Weekly Standard, National Review and Claremont Review of Books. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University.
The lecture is free and open to the media, but space is limited. Attendees are encouraged to register by visiting the event’s ticketing site here.
WHEN:
Thursday, April 26, 2018
6 p.m. EDT – Doors Open
6:30 p.m. EDT – Lecture // Reception to follow
WHERE:
Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship
227 Massachusetts Avenue NE
Washington, D.C. 2000
WHO:
Max Eden, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
About the Kirby Center
The Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship is an extension of the teaching mission of Hillsdale College to Washington, D.C. Its purpose is to teach the Constitution and the principles that give it meaning. Through the study of original source documents from American history—and of older books that formed the education of America’s founders—the Center seeks to inspire students, teachers, citizens and policymakers to return the Constitution to its central place in the political life of the nation.