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ACLU and student rights
Source: ACLU
Country: United States

The American Civil Liberties Union's compendium on the status of free speech and search and seizure protections in the public schools.

Freedom in Schools: Doing time at the big (school)house
Source: Free-Market.Net
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States

Public school students today are watched, regimented, documented, muzzled and forced to surrender body fluids as a matter of course. (9/13/00)

Zero tolerance = zero common sense = zero justice
Source: crossmyt.com
Country: United States

A site devoted to challenging and exposing primary and secondary school administrators' "mindlessly inflexible enforcement" of zero-tolerance policies, which "dictate that all infractions, however minor, against certain regulations will be punished as major offenses." Links to reports, discussion and analysis.

The FIRE Quarterly
Source: FIRE
Country: United States

Index page for FIRE's quarterly newsletter on civil liberties issues in America's colleges and universities.

Speech codes database
Source: FIRE
Country: United States

Alphabetical, state-sorted listing of all schools currently in the database, with links to each school's speech code policies. An invaluable database for prospective university students as well as faculty who care about freedom.

FIRE's guides to student rights on campus
Source: FIRE
Country: United States
E-mail: guides@thefire.org

"FIRE believes it imperative that our nation's future leaders be educated as members of a free society, able to debate and resolve peaceful differences without resorting to coercion and repression. To help achieve this, FIRE has implemented its Guides to Student Rights on Campus." Five guides are currently available.

FIRE and the aftermath of September 11
Source: FIRE
Country: United States

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education documents its efforts to protect free speech on campuses in the midst of the hysteria following the terrorist attacks. (10/29/01)

Speech codes in the courts
Source: FIRE
Country: United States

List of major court cases that have an impact on freedom of speech at American universities, as well as free speech in general.

Speech codes web site
Source: FIRE
Country: United States

"Speechcodes.org aims at nothing less than the abolition of every unconstitutional public speech code and of every contractually invalid private speech code." Information, news, activism ideas, and much more are available at this invaluable resource.

FIRE case archive
Source: FIRE
Country: United States

Archive of cases FIRE has been involved in. Links to news reports, editorials, briefs, amicus curiae filings, and more.

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