Some of the hardest free speech issues arise when a university argues that restrictions are justified by its "educational mission." Public colleges and universities are bound by the First Amendment.

In a very interesting new paper titled “Education Is Speech: Parental Free Speech in Education,” law professor Philip Hamburger argues that recognition of education as speech has significant ...

Many universities are struggling to reconcile the principles of free expression and campus safety. This is not a new issue, but it has taken on greater salience in the midst of protests over the ...

Every school has a bank of teachers and leaders who have studied the Constitution. Every district has those who teach it. Every district, also, has access to attorneys whose practices require they ...

President Trump has taken an important step to protect intellectual freedom on college campuses. His executive order, “Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and ...

President Barack Obama is planning to address the nation's schoolchildren Tuesday, with a message that the White House says will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take ...

These are turbulent times for universities. While there are very real problems on college campuses — many of which do stem from challenges with antisemitism, free speech and diversity, equity and ...

Yesterday, at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy, Donald Trump delivered a speech about his education vision. As I’ve repeatedly noted, there’s no point in putting a lot of stock in his ...

As part of the Project on Freedom of Speech and Civil Discourse, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is committed to making educational materials on this theme more readily accessible to a broad ...

Education has a unique role to play in countering hate speech. From an early age, global citizenship education can help ...