Student Rights

State GOP Bill Would Let Schools Punish Students For Off-Campus Activity, Online Speech

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Indiana Bill, First Amendment, Free Speech, School Censorship, Schools Punishing Students, Online Bullying, Video, Student Rights, Indiana Bullying Bill, Student Speech, Student Censorship, Student Free Speech, First Amendment Rights, Students Punished, Anti-Bullying Bill, Eric Koch, School Bullying, Off-Campus Activities, Education News

A bill that would allow schools to punish students for off-campus activities -- even while at the mall on weekends -- reached Indiana's state Senate C...

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Too Sexy For The High School Yearbook?

Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Aclu, Yearbook Controversy, Student Rights, Banned Yearbook Photo, Video, Senior Photos, Durango High School, Right to Freedom of Expression, Durango, Censorship, Sydney Spies, School Dress Code, Denver News

A Durango High School senior had her yearbook portrait yanked and says that school administrators told her the photo violated school dress code. Th...

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Students Need Teachers With Tenure

David Moshman | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Academic Freedom, Student Rights, Teacher Tenure, Education News
David Moshman

In principle, all teachers should have academic freedom regardless of tenure status. But in the real world of education, the exercise of such freedom depends in large part on tenure. Thus students need teachers with tenure.

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Thank Christian Conservatives For Gay-Straight Alliances In Public Schools

David Moshman | Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Equal Access Act, Gay Straight Alliance, Freedom of Association, Student Rights, Gay Rights, Free Speech, School Prayer, Conservative Christians, Education News
David Moshman

The story goes back 30 years to the early days of the Reagan administration.

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Formidable Coalition Joins Fight for Student Rights

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Campus Liberty, Student Rights, First Amendment, College News, Free Speech, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Valdosta State University, Barnes v. Zaccari, Hayden Barnes, Greg Lukianoff, Fire, Facebook, Eleventh-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals, Due Process, College News
Greg Lukianoff

Hayden Barnes, a former student at Georgia's Valdosta State University (VSU) was kicked out of his college for protesting. This case is easily among the worst I've ever seen.

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School Officials Argue With Student Over Meaning Of 'Hell'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Ramirez, Student Rights, Dress Code, Free Speech, Jesus, Missouri, North Kirkwood Middle School, School Policy, T-Shirt, School Dress Code, Education News

An unlikely argument over semantics has erupted at one Kirkwood, Mo. middle school regarding the use of the word "hell," reports KTVI. Michelle Ram...

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Academic Freedom and Indoctrination

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Penn State, David Horowitz, Student Rights, Cary Nelson, Aaup, Stanley Fish, National Association of Scholars, Inside Higher Ed, Academic Freedom, Indoctrination, Education News
David Moshman

We all support essentially the same principles of academic freedom, including respect for the authority of faculty over the curriculum and respect for the right of students not to be indoctrinated.

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Utah Students Pioneer Gay-Alliance Clubs Throughout State

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Gay Straight Alliance, Student Rights, Transgender Issues, Gay Rights, Utah, Gay Students, Lgbt, LGBT Youth, Gsa, Education News

The New York Times has reported that over 30 Gay-Straight Alliance school clubs have formed across the state of Utah in 2010. This comes on the heels...

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One Strike And She's Out: Softball Player Says Coaches 'Outed' Her To Parents Then Dropped Her From Team

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High School, Student Rights, Gay Rights, High School Sports, Gay Issues, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Sexual Orientation, Skye Wyatt, Education News

For some, it takes three strikes and they're out. For others, the play is already made before stepping up to bat. Two East Texas high school softball...

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Academic Freedom in High School and Kindergarten

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High School, Academic Freedom, Student Rights, Intellectual Freedom, Children's Rights, Texas State Board of Education, Kindergarten, Education News
David Moshman

Perhaps we can't run a kindergarten like a college, but we can provide students of all ages with a curriculum determined by teachers and other experts on academic grounds and encourage them to figure things out.

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Academic Freedom: Not Just for College Professors

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Academic Freedom, Student Rights, Intellectual Freedom, Aaup, Professors, Tenure, Education News
David Moshman

Teachers should have intellectual freedom because such freedom enhances the quality of education and research, thus serving the common good.

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'I Love Boobies': Cancer Bracelets Raise Debate Over School Codes

AP | BOB MOEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: I Love Boobies, Cancer Bracelets, School Codes, Dress Codes, I Heart Boobies, Student Rights, Bracelet Controversy, Breast Cancer Awareness, Keep a Breast Foundation, Breast Cancer, Cancer Awareness, Education News

LARAMIE, Wyo. — A $4 rubber bracelet meant to raise breast cancer awareness has done that and more: Students nationwide are wearing the "I (hear...

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Supreme Court's CLS Decision Sucker-Punches First Amendment

Adam Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Student Rights, First Amendment, Hastings College of Law, Supreme Court Decision, Christian Legal Society vs. Martinez, Student Organizations, College News
Adam Goldstein

It seems that the Court views the First Amendment rights of citizens as inviolable, unless those citizens are students, in which case those rights can be diminished whenever there's a political agenda.

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