Table of Contents
College in Flap over Corporal Punishment Essay
A dispute has escalated at a small college in New York state and a
student who was barred from the school's teacher training program
because he wrote a paper in support of corporal punishment. Le Moyne
College says the controversy is not about academic freedom, but about
who is qualified to be a teacher.
Listen to the radio coverage at NPR’s website.
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s order ‘hardening state government’ against China is dangerously hard to parse
Gov. Abbott issued an executive order that would limit the professional travel of academics at state universities — and surveil their private travel to "foreign adversaries."
Right, left, and in-between: Can we bring our differences to the table?
We may sit on different sides of the table, but we can still meet in the middle by practicing free speech.
From the UK to Germany to Singapore: Police are watching what you post
Police detained a pro-Palestinian activist in London under the UK’s Terrorism Act for, as the arresting officer put it, “making a hate speech.”
Wisconsin school district mulls unconstitutional ‘hate speech’ policy
Baraboo School District is threatening the First Amendment rights of students and faculty with a proposed “Anti-Hate Speech” policy.