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9.19.2006

Updated First Amendment Study Released

The Knight Foundation released a follow-up study to their 2004 Future of the First Amendment report yesterday. In the last two years, classroom instruction of First Amendment principles has increased, while student attitudes toward the five freedoms have become more polarized. While more students stand against prior review of student newspaper articles, as a whole they are increasingly apt to think the First Amendment protections are overly broad.

Teachers remain frustrated by the state of First Amendment instruction in classrooms across America, and we at the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum hope to fill this gap through school visits to our facility, the availability of First Amendment related curriculum on our web site (bound copies for teachers who register field trips), and our state-of-the-art web site (www.freedommuseum.us).

For more information on the Knight study please visit the following link: Teens Learning and Challenging First Amendment Values.

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