Students’ Free Speech Rights in U.S. Primary Schools

The Nikola Hribar Primary School, Velika Gorica hosts the American Corner and the American guest speaker Professor Jacqueline Stefkovich, the Fulbright Scholar, who will give a presentation entitled Students’ Free Speech Rights in U.S. Primary Schools to a group of 8th grade students.


Jacqueline A. Stefkovich is a Fulbright Scholar in Croatia and professor Emeritus in Educational Leadership at The Pennsylvania State University in the United States.  She holds a doctoral degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Professor Stefkovich has worked in educational settings for over forty years. She began her career as a kindergarten teacher in Catholic schools, a guidance counselor in two public schools in the U.S., and later as a state-level administrator, and an educational consultant.  At Penn State, she served as a professor and earlier as an Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Research, and Faculty Development and Head of the Department of Education Policy Studies.  She is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.

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