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Jonathan Zimmerman is an American historian of education who is a professor of history of education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. [1]
Zimmerman graduated from Columbia College in 1983,where he was the editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator . [2] He earned an M.A. in history in 1990,and a Ph.D. in history in 1993,both from Johns Hopkins University. [3] He taught for 20 years at New York University,where he was chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture,Education,and Human Development. [3]
Though being a social liberal,he champions unrestricted freedom of speech for all,including conservatives. [4]