Joanne Jacobs
Can school OK some protests, but not others?
If a school lets students walk out, without penalty, to protest gun violence, is it obliged to allow walkouts for other issues? What...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23, 2018
- 1 min
Don’t talk about guns — or square-root signs
A Louisiana teenager who joked that the square-root sign looks like a gun has been barred from school and faces an expulsion hearing,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min
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
- Nov 4, 2017
- 3 min
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 3, 2017
- 1 min
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
- Oct 19, 2017
- 2 min
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 18, 2017
- 2 min
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 9, 2017
- 2 min
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
- Sep 20, 2017
- 2 min
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
- Aug 30, 2017
- 3 min
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
- Jul 30, 2017
- 1 min
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 28, 2017
- 1 min
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 24, 2017
- 1 min
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 23, 2017
- 3 min
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
- Jun 6, 2017
- 3 min
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
- May 9, 2017
- 2 min
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
- Apr 6, 2017
- 2 min
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
- Mar 29, 2017
- 2 min
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 26, 2017
- 1 min
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
- Feb 23, 2017
- 1 min
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...
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