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| Visit this site for tips on how to teach the First Amendment in your classroom. http://www.teachfirstamendment.org/ |
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| ASNE - Scholastic journalism site for teen journalists, teachers, guidance counselors, and the editors of professional newspapers. Where to go to start a newspaper. www.highschooljournalism.org |
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| SPLC - Provides legal advice and information and low-cost educational materials for student journalists on various legal topics. www.splc.org |
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| RTNDF - The High School Electronic Journalism Project seeks to identify, inspire, train and challenge the next generation of diverse electronic journalists and First Amendment advocates. http://www.rtndf.org/ |
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| Channel One Network is the pre-eminent news and public affairs content provider to teens. Channel One's mission is to spark debate and discussion among teens, and also discussion between young people and their parents and educators, on the important issues affecting young people in America. http://www.channelone.com |
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| '07 survey shows Americans' views mixed on basic freedoms: nearly two-thirds say founders intended ‘Christian nation’; support rises for limits on campaign contributions. http://www.fac.org |
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Key Findings: Researchers Ken Dautrich and David Yalof have summarized the new Knight study in the following key findings. 1. More than half of all high school students say they have not heard of Constitution Day, mandated by federal law to be the day the Constitution is taught in schools. Just 1 in 10 remember how their high school celebrated the day last year. <More> 2. Despite increases in First Amendment classes from 2004 through 2006, nearly three-fourths of students still don’t know how they feel about the First Amendment, or take it for granted. <More> |
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| 3. Students support individual free expression rights that directly affect or interest them; they’re less supportive of rights that are less relevant to their lives. <More> | |||||||||||||||
| 4. Parents, not teachers, have the greatest influence on students’ choice of news sources. <More> | |||||||||||||||
5. More students are turning to the Internet to find their news. Their definition of news isn’t much different than that of their parents.<More> |
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