To celebrate its namesake’s birthday, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression at the University of Virginia today released the names of the recipients of the 2010 Jefferson Muzzles, a dubious "honor” awarded to those who have inhibited free speech and expression during the past year.Two of the Center's “honorees” limited student speech in public schools.
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Zero tolerance for tattoos? How about zero tolerance for ignorance, instead.
Sometimes a writer summarizes things so beautifully that the best you can do is step out of the way and let that writer's voice be heard.
Federal court’s ruling on teacher First Amendment rights is a wake-up call for Nevada union officials
It is disappointing when image-conscious school administrators seek to sanitize students' writing about sensitive subjects.
Syracuse honors courage against persecution of free speech in Mexico … and in North Dakota?
The staff of West Fargo High School's newspaper the Packer and former adviser Jeremy Murphy received an honorable mention in the Tully Center for Free Speech Awards, given annually to a journalist who has faced obstacles to free speech.
Louisiana joins “technophobia” craze with restraints on teacher-student communications
Louisiana's effort to deter inappropriate personal relationships between school employees and students may have a significant, and perhaps unforeseen, chilling impact on newsgathering by high school journalists.Act 214, enacted by the 2009 Louisiana legislature with the support of Gov.
Faculty group bemoans erosion of free-speech protections on campus
Some of the most troubling cases that come through our door at the Student Press Law Center are not stories about students at all -- they are stories about the faculty advisers who become "collateral damage" when schools and colleges realize that they cannot safely attack student journalists directly.The leading faculty voice in support of employee free-speech rights on campus, the American Association of University Professors, came out this week with an authoritative assessment of the state of faculty speech rights -- in a word, the state is lousy -- and with some "best practices" for campuses that are interested in fostering the free and open discussion of ideas, no matter how controversial.The AAUP report, Protecting an Independent Faculty Voice: Academic Freedom after Garcetti v.