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At the schoolhouse gate : lessons in intellectual freedom /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pipkin, Gloria
Other Authors: Lent, ReLeah Cossett
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, [2002]
Subjects:
Academic freedom > United States.
Teaching, Freedom of > United States.
Censorship > United States.
Public schools > United States.
Table of 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?.