Students' right to speak
Subtitle: the First Amendment in public schools
By: Erica R. Salkin
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781476662923
Subjects: Students; Civil rights; Freedom of speech
Description: "This book provides educators, administrators, school board members and parents a starting point in creating student speech policies that encourage the responsible exercise of constitutional freedoms, while respecting the learning environment. The author discusses history, sociology, law and philosophy surrounding student speech, demonstrating that free speech and effective teaching and administration in public schools are not mutually exclusive"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What does the law say about children?; title: The constitution goes to public school; title: You can't say that in a public school- or can you?; title: What is a student?; title: Why free speech for students at all?; title: A foot in both worlds : the special case of student newspapers; title: Facebook and twitter and texting, oh my! cyberspeech; title: Starting your own conversation about student speech.