At the Schoolhouse Gate : Lessons in Intellectual Freedom

Preview Chapter 4: Confrontation (PDF, 843 KB), Preview Chapter 20: Still Learning (PDF, 842 KB), Find out "What a Teacher Can Do to Prevent and Resist Censorship" (PDF, 857 KB); "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech Over the last two decades Pipkin and Lent have worked together to build a tradition of intellectual freedom wi Do First Amendment protections apply to teachers and students in K-12?; Who controls what we can read and write in schools?

Is inquiry or indoctrination at the heart of schooling?

Can critical literacy survive the machinations of shortsighted bureaucrats and board members?

Through two intertwined stories spanning nearly two decades, the authors address these questions.

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