15 Threats to Free Speech in 2015
Free speech zones. Book banning. Facebook's nudity rules. The hysteria over 'Islamic indoctrination.' Let's review just some of the threats to free speech in 2015.
Free speech zones. Book banning. Facebook's nudity rules. The hysteria over 'Islamic indoctrination.' Let's review just some of the threats to free speech in 2015.
Did a dispute over phallus props in a theater production cost an adjunct professor his job?
From NCAC's gala, author Lois Lowry discusses her conversation with a young reader who was bothered by the 'inappropriate' things in one of her books.
Complaints about a lesson that included Arabic calligraphy caused an entire school district in Virginia to close down.
"I love that child... she's the one I write for."
NCAC urges a Florida high school to reconsider its decision that a student painting was too explicit to display.
The reasons a private school in Pennsylvania offered for not teaching 'Huck Finn' are precisely the reasons it should be taught.
A parent in Etiwanda, California is complaining that a celebrated children's book about tolerance and diversity is not "appropriate" for a kindergarten classroom.
A conservative legal group's threat to sue a school over the planned reading of a book about a transgender child is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the First Amendment applies to public schools.
Good news! The Couer d'Alene school board defended the freedom to read after a committee voted to reject Jhumpa Lahiri's novel for inclusion in a 12th grade English class.
An ad hoc committee in Idaho doesn't think high school seniors are ready to read The Namesake. The school board has an opportunity to reject this recommendation and protect the freedom to read.
The decision by San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to deny a permit to display Bay Area artist Victor De La Rosa's posters about community concerns over gentrification raises serious First Amendment concerns.
A reconsideration review committee that met on December 3 decided in a 7-4 vote to retain copies of Gayle Foreman’s award-winning young adult novel Just One Day in Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public School libraries.
After students voiced their objections, the University of Kentucky has covered a historical mural. The school should seize the opportunity to have serious dialogue.
Parents of a middle school student were upset to find their child read the novel 'One Fine Day.' So they want it removed from four school libraries in the district.
One parent's complaint about a graphic novel has apparently led a school in North Carolina to remove it from the school library.