(1997). Academic Freedom in the North and the South: An African Perspective. Academe, v83 n6 p16-21 Nov-Dec. Academics in both the industrial world and developing countries face funding declines, growing state intervention, public hostility, and corporate pressure. Simultaneously, they are experiencing internal wars over policy, curriculum, and nature of scholarly communities. In North America debates about academic freedom center on tenure and free speech; in Africa, they focus on institutional autonomy, intellectual authority, and public accountability. (Author/MSE)…
(2003). Seeing Red over Speech. American School Board Journal, v190 n3 p36-38 Mar. Analyzes federal case involving suspension of New Jersey high school student for wearing a T-shirt listing top 10 reasons for being a "redneck" in violation of district's racial harassment policy. Court upheld the policy with a minor exception, but ruled its application to the student's "redneck" T-shirt violated his First Amendment Free Speech rights. (PKP)…
(2001). Students in Action. Insights on Law & Society, v1 n2 p16-21 Win. Focuses on important issues surrounding the opening clauses of the First Amendment on the establishment of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. Includes articles: "Established Churches in Colonial Times,""Establishment Clause: Here's How to Understand it!", "Religious Freedom and Today's Religious Minorities," and "Santa Fe: A School Prayer or Free Speech Case?". (CMK)…
(1999). Reading between Librarians' Lines. Society, v36 n6 p26-32 Sep-Oct. Addresses three aspects of the issue of intellectual freedom: the nature of intellectual freedom as defined by the American Library Association's "Intellectual Freedom Manual," the underlying philosophy implicit in that expression, and an alternative to both the manual and its philosophical presuppositions. Attempts to define the difference between the phrases "free speech" and "free expression." (SM)…
(2003). The Sad Case of the Columbine Tiles. American School Board Journal, v190 n1 p41-42,47 Jan. Analyzes free-speech challenge to school district's guidelines for acceptable expressions on ceramic tiles painted by Columbine High School students to express their feelings about the massacre. Tenth Circuit found that tile painting constituted school-sponsored speech and thus district had the constitutional authority under "Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier" to regulate the content of the titles. (PKP)…
(1990). Democratic Orientations among High School Seniors in the United States and Germany. Social Education, v54 n7 p458-65,469 Nov-Dec. Investigates strength of national identity and degrees of democratic orientation among honors high school seniors taking advanced political science courses in 1986 in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. Finds West German students less tolerant of minority free speech, more fearful of consequences of dissent, and less politically efficacious. Concludes these differences reflect Nazism's psychological legacy. (CH)…
(1990). Acoustical Durations of Speech Segments during Stuttering Adaptation. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, v33 n3 p494-504 Sep. The study found no significant trends in the change of acoustical durations of stutter- and disfluency-free speech from readings in an adaptation series with four adapting, four nonadapting, and four nonstuttering subjects (all young adults). Findings suggest that adaptation of stuttering and other fluency-inducing conditions are a result of reduced demands upon central motor-linguistic processes. (Author/DB)…
(1994). Hate Speech: Power in the Marketplace. Journal of College and University Law, v20 n4 p461-81 Spr. A discussion of hate speech and freedom of speech on college campuses examines the difference between hate speech from normal, objectionable interpersonal comments and looks at Supreme Court decisions on the limits of student free speech. Two cases specifically concerning regulation of hate speech on campus are considered: Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire and Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District. (MSE)…
(1995). Rosenberger v. Rector: The First Amendment Dog Chases Its Tail. Journal of College and University Law, v21 n4 p723-64 Spr. Discussion of the Rosenberger vs. Rector case, involving the ability of public universities to decide whether or not to fund religious speech, evaluates contemporary jurisprudence concerning the establishment and free speech clauses and applies theories in these areas to funding of student religious speech on college campuses. It also outlines factors that universities should consider in deciding on funding. (MSE)…
(1992). "Miles v. Denver Public Schools": Teacher Autonomy, an Endangered Concept?. International Journal of Educational Reform, v1 n3 p298-302 Jul. Summarizes a case involving a Denver high school teacher's naming, in a government class, of a student observed in a public sexual rendezvous. The teacher lost on all fronts, because his speech was considered school-sponsored and did not meet the school district's pedagogical interests, based on the 1988 "Hazelwood" decision limiting student free speech rights. (nine references) (MLH)…
(1993). Grammatical Morpheme Acquisition in 4-Year-Olds with Normal, Impaired, and Late-Developing Language. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, v36 n6 p1271-75 Dec. Production of grammatical morphemes was examined in free speech samples from 34 4-year-olds with history of slow expressive language development (SELD) and control group. Both the SELD children who had caught up in mean length of utterance by age four and those who had not had acquired fewer grammatical morphemes than controls, though acquisition was in the usual order. (Author/DB)…
(1994). Discrimination against Religious Viewpoints Prohibited in Public Schools: An Analysis of the Lamb's Chapel Decision. West's Education Law Quarterly, v3 n1 p82-91 Jan. In "Lambs Chapel," the Supreme Court struck down a complete prohibition against afterhours use of public schools by religious groups. Summarizes lower court decisions, and then the opinions of Justices White, Scalia, and Kennedy. Examines the Court's consensus about protecting religious perspectives under the Free Speech Clause and the debate over the meaning of the Establishment Clause. (55 footnotes) (MLF)…
(1998). Redefining the Place of Religion in Public Education: An Analysis of the Eighth Circuit's Interpretation of the Establishment Clause. International Journal of Educational Reform, v7 n3 p226-31 Jul. "Agostini v. Felton" facilitates federal courts' consideration of applications of non-free-speech government-religion interaction. "Stark v. Independent School District No. 640," concerning a reopened Minnesota elementary school attended by children of a technology-adverse religious group, suggests that coincidences between religious beliefs and government actions, in themselves, are insufficient to violate the establishment clause. (12 references) (MLH)…
(1998). The Principal and Religious Activity. NASSP Bulletin, v82 n599 p10-17 Sep. Religious activity in public schools has become a major issue, thanks to the Equal Access Act and "Lamb's Chapel," but neither has eliminated the Establishment Clause as a feasible concern for school officials. Protecting student religious expression to the same extent as other forms of free speech raises legitimate concerns regarding public school endorsement of religion. (13 references) (MLH)…
(2000). The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America. Texas Education Review, v1 n2 p21-27 Sum. Reviews the modern academy's intellectual foundations, rooted in Marcuse's, Ginsburg's, Kerouac's, and Mailer's ideas. Highlights Kimball's new book on the 1960s cultural revolution. Questions the notion that the 1960s were about peace, love, compassion, and diversity, revealing deep connections between modern political correctness and Marcusian beliefs that rights like free speech are provisional and should be withheld from the bourgeois. (SM)…