At the schoolhouse gate : lessons in intellectual freedom / Gloria Pipkin & ReLeah Cossett Lent ; foreword by Susan Ohanian.

Author/creator Pipkin, Gloria
Other author Lent, ReLeah Cossett.
Format Book
Publication InfoPortsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2002.
Descriptionxx, 235 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

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?.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (233-235).
LCCN 2001039909
ISBN0325003955 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks LC72.2 .P57 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold