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Tweet2: Choosing your forum status is like choosing the best medicine

Which forum? Best prescription to cure Hazelwood is open forum for student expression. http://jeasprc.org/choosing-forum…-best-medicine/ #25HZLWD Establishing your student media as open forums for student expression – not closed or limited forums – can make a huge difference in developing a cure of Hazelwood. The best forum is like preventative medicine. The worst is like being exposed…

Seeking to cure the Hazelwood Blues

Weighted down by the Hazelwood blues? Try these resources. #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/seekingcure One way to commemorate Hazelwood’s 25th anniversary is to take steps to control its effects. Here are our recommendations for an Action Plan to begin to find a cure for Hazelwood. Additionally, check out the SPLC’s 5 simple steps you can make sure Hazelwood never turns 50. Below the Action…

A Teacher’s Kit for curing Hazelwood

by Megan Fromm January 13, 2013, we commemorate a bittersweet milestone in scholastic publications history: the 1988 Supreme Court ruling in Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier. This decision institutionalized censorship in most public schools in America, and our students have been publishing in its shadow ever since. This month, JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission seeks to re-engage teachers, students, administrators and…

Hazelwood: Time to assess its impact
on educational process, civic engagement

by Randy Swikle Former JEA Illinois state director On the 25th anniversary (Jan. 13) of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier decision, the high school student press in America is at risk. Instead of engaging students in the functions of American journalism, some school authorities want to relegate student news media to…

Hazelwood anniversary a good opportunity
for reflective thought, appropriate action

With Jan. 13, the 25th anniversary of the Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier decision, less than two weeks away, now is a good time to begin to plan how you and your students will note the event. The Student Press Law Center has created two ways: • One is a website that will provide resources, “horror stories” and…

Students, the First Amendment and the Supreme Court

by Jan Ewell Permission granted to use at will for non-commercial purposes The Bill of Rights and Schools The First Amendment, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, became the law of the land in 1791, but 216 years later in 2007 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in Morse v. Frederick, “As…

Tweet2: Choosing your forum status is like choosing the best medicine

Which forum? Best prescription to cure Hazelwood is open forum for student expression. http://jeasprc.org/choosing-forum…-best-medicine/ #25HZLWD Establishing your student media as open forums for student expression – not closed or limited forums – can make a huge difference in developing a cure of Hazelwood. The best forum is like preventative medicine. The worst is like being exposed…

Start your new year with a call to action: Hazelwood anniversary looms

by Megan Fromm Yes, students, there is a Grinch. And its name is Hazelwood. On January 13, 2013 student journalists and advisers across the country will (begrudgingly) commemorate 25 years of Hazelwood censorship. In the hopes of inspiring change, dialogue and ultimately greater scholastic press freedom for all students, SPRC is finalizing its 25th Anniversary…

A Praxis about journalism?
What do YOU know?

by Candace Bowen Chemistry teachers take a test showing they know electronic configurations based on the periodic table. History teachers demonstrate what they know about the early river valley civilizations. And the list goes on. But how often and where do journalism teachers have to prove their knowledge? Not too often, if the Praxis content…

Fighting FERPA with facts

by Mark Goodman As noted in the JEA SPRC blog in September, the Student Press Law Center is taking on schools that misuse FERPA in a new and powerful way. Scholastic journalists can get in on the action. FERPA stands for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. It’s the federal law enacted in 1974…

How to seek truth from power

By Marina Hendricks At the recent JEA/NSPA Fall National Convention in San Antonio, members of the Scholastic Press Rights Commission conducted open forums for students and advisers to discuss issues they are having with prior review and restraint. One discussion yielded a gratifying display of peer mentoring, with students who freely practice journalism in their…

FAPFA application deadline is Dec. 1

by John Bowen The deadline is fast approaching for this year’s First Amendment Press Freedom Award (FAPFA). In its 13th year, the recognition is designed to identify and recognize high schools that actively support and protect First Amendment rights of their students and teachers. The honor focuses on press freedoms. The application can be completed by…