Analyzes Arkansas case wherein the Eighth Circuit held 6-5 that letter written by seventh-grade student threatening violence against his former girl friend was not protected by the First Amendment even though a friend took the letter from student's home without his knowledge and gave it to the girl. Upheld board's decision to expel student.…

Discusses how two students at Governors State University say a college dean interfered with their handling of the student newspaper; the college says it was only trying to guide inexperienced journalists. A lawsuit will test how much oversight administrators can assert. (EV)

Explores the trend in which nursing and other health sciences are merged within a single academic unit in higher education. Discusses faculty governance, academic freedom, tenure, the purposes of academic realignment, and overall success of such changes. (Contains 18 references.) (JOW)

Considers school choice and employment policies. Suggests that American educators can learn a great deal from other Western nations, which have long made educational freedom a cornerstone of their policies. Concludes that the experience of other Western democracies suggests that a publicly funded school can appropriately ensure the coherence of…

Key issues affecting higher education are globalization, technology, the need for diversification, preservation of autonomy, and collaboration. To respond to changing needs, higher education institutions must increase the transparency and accessibility of their programs and enhance their market advantages while protecting essential principles of…

Describes the structure of the government, education system and media in one of the most technologically-advanced Islamic nations, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Discusses UAE news values relative to Western news values in the context of issues of freedom of expression. Considers the possibility of applying Western notions to the practice or the…

The paper challenges recent criticism of higher education curricula as "biased." Teachers are encouraged not to attempt to rid their teaching of such "bias" but to state and defend positions, however controversial, for the furthering of students' critical capacities. (Author/DB)

Describes the driving force and the political network and coalition which led to the passage of a Colorado bill guaranteeing student free expression rights at the state level. (KEH)

Discusses how eight English teachers have dealt with recent censorship issues in their schools. (RS)

Presents H. G. Gadamer's ontology of understanding as a developmental foundation for interpersonal system ethics. Conceptualizes interaction in terms of demand that the subject matter places on openly formed mutual understanding. Shows unethical interactions as practices which prohibit this development. Provides examples of processes by which…

Rather than resolving the tension between egalitarian goals and educational excellence in favor of either side of the polarity, advances a theory whereby the two are seen as compatible and interdependent. Adumbrates their mutually supportive interrelationship in a framework drawing upon perennial philosophical views of the nature of freedom. (DMM)

To behave responsibly toward school journalism, personnel officers and administrators must select a qualified, fully cognizant adviser/instructor with training in press law and ethics, journalism advising and instruction, news reporting, copy editing, and design and layout principles. A professionally oriented curriculum is also a must. (MLH)

Traditional social taboos against questioning established structures of social rule have subverted schools' responsibility to cultivate the reasoned debate which is essential to our intelligent survival in a world and future which need rethinking. (CB)

Focuses First Amendment claims within the public schools: (1) claims of students to free expression; (2) right of students to receive information; (3) right of teachers to use materials and teaching methods of choice; and (4) right of parents to have their children exempted from assertedly objectionable materials. (MLF)

Reviews Burch v. Barker, in which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that school administrators' prior review of an alternative or off-campus publication, destined for distribution on the school campus, is in violation of the First Amendment. (MS)