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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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The overall design for conducting this project featured a multi-stage cluster sampling methodology. Employing this technique produced a scientific, and thus generalizable, survey of high school students and teachers in the United States. This technique involved drawing an initial sample of 45 high school buildings in the United States. For each of these 45 schools, a phone call was placed to the school principal, asking if his/her school would be willing to participate in the project. Thirty-four principals agreed to have their schools participate in the survey. These 34 school administrators were asked to coordinate the administration of surveys to all students and teachers in the school building. Principals themselves were also asked to complete a survey. Partial copies of the surveys that were administered to students and teachers may be found in the appendix to this report. In total, 14,498 students, 882 teachers, and 34 principals completed the questionnaires. This project was designed and conducted by Dr. David Yalof and Dr. Kenneth Dautrich. Please note: For the student survey, the results are accurate to within a margin of plus or minus 1 percent. For the faculty questions, the results are accurate to within a plus or minus 3.6 percent. |
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