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Can schools police social media? Should they?
A California girl was suspended from the basketball team for retweeting Snoop Dogg holding what appears to be a marijuana joint, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 18, 20182 min read
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Reed rebels — against ‘anti-racist’ disruptors
At Reed College, possibly the most liberal liberal-arts college in the country, first-year students are standing up to an “anti-racist”...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 4, 20173 min read
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College fees fund controversial groups, speakers
Mandatory student fees that fund clubs and guest speakers are under scrutiny from the right and left at college campuses, writes Jon...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 3, 20171 min read
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College kids want free speech to be nice
Less than half of college students know that “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment and some of those wish it weren’t, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 19, 20172 min read
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Is ‘land of opportunity’ offensive?
If college administrators aren’t going to train students and faculty in “cultural competence,” they should do it competently, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 18, 20172 min read
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Scores slip after ‘equity’ focus
“Racial equity” became the priority in Edina Public Schools (EPS), an affluent Minneapolis suburb, in 2013. Test scores are falling,...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 9, 20172 min read
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Is free speech only for nice speech?
Thirty-nine percent of college students believe the First Amendment doesn’t protect hate speech and another 16 percent aren’t sure,...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 21, 20172 min read
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Speech codes discriminate against ‘neurodiverse’ students
College students with autism and other “neurodiverse” conditions could use the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to overturn speech...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 30, 20173 min read
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Doubleplus Ungood Crimethink
How can anyone in America think this is a good idea, or even that it would pass legal muster? Students at Carl Sandburg College could now...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 30, 20171 min read
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District Admits Asst Principal Acted Illegally
The students were protesting on the public sidewalk in front of the school, not on school grounds and not during school. Agree with...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 28, 20171 min read
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College kids need challenge, not ‘safety’
Instead of demanding “safe spaces,” young people should be encouraged to seek challenges, writes Andrew Rotherham in U.S. News. He had a...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 24, 20171 min read
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Stick and stones may break my bones …
Speech is violence, if it causes chronic stress, argues Lisa Feldman Barrett, a Northeastern psychology professor, in The New York Times....
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 24, 20173 min read
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Mob rule at Evergreen
Too many American colleges have become “institutions of higher daycare,” writes Lance Morrow, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 7, 20173 min read
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Suspended for racist images, boys sue school
Four Bay Area 11th graders suspended for “liking” or commenting on a racist Instagram image have sued the school district and...
Joanne Jacobs
May 10, 20172 min read
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College divide: Ideas or ‘justice’?
The divide on elite college campuses separates defenders of “the free exchange of ideas” from those who see “inclusivity and social...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 7, 20172 min read
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Kipnis: Feminism shouldn’t be fragile
A week after a Middlebury crowd disrupted Charles Murray’s speech, and sent a professor to the hospital with a concussion, feminist...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 30, 20172 min read
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College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 26, 20171 min read
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FIRE names 10 worst college for free speech
The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech include Harvard, Georgetown, the University of Oregon and University of South Carolina, according...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20171 min read
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Trump-twitting homework is __________
A Staten Island middle-school teacher is under fire for an anti-Trump fill-in-the-blank question on vocabulary homework, reports the New...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20171 min read
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Beware the bias police
Universities are creating “Bias Response Teams” to investigate offensive speech, reports the Foundation for Individual Rights in...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20171 min read
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