At the schoolhouse gate : lessons in intellectual freedom

Title
  1. At the schoolhouse gate : lessons in intellectual freedom / Gloria Pipkin & ReLeah Cossett Lent ; foreword by Susan Ohanian.
Published by
  1. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2002.
Author
  1. Pipkin, Gloria.

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Additional authors
  1. Lent, ReLeah Cossett.
Description
  1. xx, 235 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. The first section of the book is devoted to a curriculum in which "active learners grew into lifelong readers because they were given real choices, time to read, and supportive feedback", The second section focuses on free expression in student publications. The third section takes a broader view of issues related to selection policies and what they mean to teachers and school boards and the ramification of stepping out of bounds for the sake of students and their right to free expression. Includes an "Intellectual Freedom Manifesto" with "The Right to Read," "The Right to Write," "The Right to Create," "The Right to Teach and Learn," and "The Right to Communicate in the Digital Age."
Subject
  1. Academic freedom > United States
  2. Teaching, Freedom of > United States
  3. Censorship > United States
  4. Public schools > United States
  5. Academic freedom
  6. Censorship
  7. Public schools
  8. Teaching, Freedom of
  9. Akademische Freiheit
  10. United States
  11. USA
Contents
  1. Freedom to read: Road to Camelot -- Choosing to learn -- Reading under fire -- Confrontation -- Building public support -- Into the inferno -- Taking a stand -- Appeals, rebukes, and death threats -- Power of the press -- Banned in Bay County -- Saving the classics -- Christians strike back -- Alone in the wasteland -- Courage and despair -- Urge to censor -- Freedom of expression: Yes and no at the right time -- Lead out from within -- Remaking ourselves -- Rejecting the human search -- Still learning -- Writer or the reader? -- Silencing mankind -- Fearful magic of print -- Bad decisions -- No more to build on there -- For the children -- Safety in a sane society -- Suppression and suspicion -- Offensive and disagreeable ideas -- Specializing in the impossible -- Foundations of freedom -- Riches and gaps: Challenging the conventional wisdom -- Adding it up -- Intellectual freedom manifesto -- What can a teacher do?
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (233-235).