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At the schoolhouse gate : lessons in intellectual freedom / Gloria Pipkin & ReLeah Cossett Lent ; foreword by Susan Ohanian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pipkin, Gloria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic freedom--United States.
- Academic freedom.
- United States.
- Teaching, Freedom of--United States.
- Teaching, Freedom of.
- Censorship--United States.
- Censorship.
- Public schools--United States.
- Public schools.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 235 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2002]
- Summary:
- It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
- Contents:
- 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?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (233-235).
- ISBN:
- 0325003955
- OCLC:
- 47972025
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