Typically when you hear about a college newspaper being threatened with censorship, budget cuts or a publication freeze, the university administration is the agent pulling the plug. Not so at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where the student governing board ordered the student-run Montclairion newspaper to stop the presses in the midst of threatened […]
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Posted in Speech in Education on Feb 2nd, 2008
A Florida public school board voted Thursday in favor of a resolution to pressure state education officials to change recently imposed standards that they regard as a mandate to teach evolution “as scientific fact.”
Members of the Nassau County School Board want the standards to include language “such that evolution is not presented at the exclusion […]
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Politicians, parents and educators are at odds this week over whether homosexuality should legally be included in lesson plans for public school sexual education courses.
Arguments held before the Circuit Court in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Wednesday pitted school officials - who believe that lesson plans should be left to educators - against parents and other […]
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Posted in Speech in Education on Jan 16th, 2008
DePaul University has unveiled a new policy outlining the school’s guidelines for on-campus student speech. Included in the guidelines is a warning to some students who have raised concerns that they may encounter certain viewpoints they will find offensive:
Ultimately, by remaining open to a broad range of ideas and opinions—even those that may appear to […]
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