Lessons in Censorship

How Schools and Courts Subvert Students’ First Amendment Rights

Catherine J. Ross

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$43.50 • £34.95 • €39.00

ISBN 9780674057746

Publication Date: 10/19/2015

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368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction: Strangling the Free Mind
I. The Emergence of Free Speech Doctrine
- 1. Think as You Will and Speak as You Think
- 2. A Taxonomy of School Censorship Takes Form
II. Pushing Porous Boundaries
- 3. Dissing and Discipline: Sans-Gêne Speech
- 4. School-Sponsored Speech: Hazelwood’s “Imprimatur” Conundrum
III. Tinker Redux
- 5. Unsettled Waters: Attacks on Pure Student Speech
- 6. Words that Harm: The Rights of Others
- 7. Off-Campus Taunts and Online Sans-Gêne Speech
- 8. Tinker Rising Like the Phoenix: Evangelicals and LGBTs Allied
Conclusion: Living Liberty
Appendix: The Federal Judicial Circuits
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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2016 AESA Critics’ Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association

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