Free Speech on America's K–12 and College Campuses

Download or read book Free Speech on America's K–12 and College Campuses written by Randy Bobbitt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Speech on America’s K–12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine covers the history of legal cases involving free speech issues on K–12 and college campuses, mostly during the fifty-year period from 1965 through 2015. While this book deals mostly with high school and college newspapers, it also covers religious issues (school prayer, distribution of religious materials, and use of school facilities for voluntary Bible study), speech codes, free speech zones, self-censorship due to political correctness, hate speech, threats of disruption and violence, and off-campus speech, including social media. Randall W. Bobbitt provides a representative sampling of cases spread across the five decades and across the subject areas listed above. Recommended for scholars of communication, education, political science, and legal studies.