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Intellectual Freedom for Young People

School

Young people have First Amendment rights. This page will provide information and links to explore these rights. This page explores those rights in school. See also Intellectual Freedom for Young People Home Page, Hot Issues, and Especially for Young People and Their Parents.

Worthwhile Places to Visit

Places to Post Your Opinion

Spank: Youth Culture Defined By Youth

TeenCentral

Teen Spot

Places to Send Your Reviews

Teen Ink: Reviews Written by Teens

TeensPoint for writing and reading reviews

Places to Read Book Reviews

Reading Rants!

TeenReads

Places to Get Information & Homework Resources

Internet Public Library Teenspace

High School Hub

Sites of Interest 

Banned Books Week

Censorship in Our Schools and Libraries

Censorship in the Schools

Censorship Reaches Ridiculous Extremes

Intellectual Freedom for Children: The Censor is Coming

Press Freedom and Censorship

The Right To Read: Censorship in the School Library

Do People Still Burn Books?

Freedom of Expression in Schools

Tinker v. Des Moines School Plaintiffs

What You Can Do to Oppose Censorship

Additional Worthwhile Places to Visit

Additional Sites of Interest

ABC's of Religion in the Public Schools

Back to School with the Religious Right

Education for Freedom (Freedom Forum)

First Amendment Court Cases

First Amendment Schools

Intellectual Freedom Issues

Internet Blocking in Public Schools: A Study on Internet Access in Educational Institutions

Kids Speak Online!

Peacefire

Schools and Children's Internet Protection Act

Student Expression

Student Rights (ACLU)

Wiretap

Youth Free Expression Network

YouthAction

Foundations of Free Expression: Historic Cases

The Right to Read Freely

Minors' First Amendment Rights

Free Press

The Right to Dissent

The Right to Free Association and the Freedom of Religion

Right to Privacy and Anonymity

When Is Speech Unprotected?

The First Amendment and New Technologies

Related Court Cases

U.S. Supreme Court Links

Findlaw First Amendment Annotations Expanded

Quotations

CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES."

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."—Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, "The One Un-American Act." Nieman Reports vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan. 1953): p. 20.


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