Name: Future of the First Amendment: Exploring Trends in High School Students’ Views of Free Speech
Start: 2022-06-29T14:00:00ZEDT
End: 2022-06-29T15:00:00ZEDT

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A panel of leading experts will discuss ways educators are navigating student free speech issues—within a changing legislative landscape—when it comes to discussing controversial topics in schools.

In our current environment of partisan polarization, educators often struggle to balance allowing students to address important (but controversial) issues in the classroom with the reality that such discussions can lead to political or legal consequences for teachers.

Yet in the eighth edition of the Knight Foundation’s Future of the First Amendment project, the 10,098 high school students and 672 teachers surveyed overwhelmingly express support for free expression, even when the opinions conveyed are unpopular or offensive.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions relevant to their own experiences in districts and schools.

Jonathan Friedman, Ph.D.

Director of Free Expression and Education, PEN America

Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr.

Superintendent of Schools, Alexandria City Public Schools

Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr., is the Superintendent of Schools at Alexandria City Public Schools. An experienced educator and administrator, Dr. Hutchings has served as a teacher and in leadership roles. Under his leadership, he collaborated with community stakeholders, administrators, and teachers to close the achievement gap and ensure that students of all backgrounds had access to the resources, tools, and opportunities needed to succeed. Dr. Hutchings was also selected for the National Superintendent of the Year Award by the National Alliance of Black School Educators and named Tennessee Middle School Principal of the Year by the Tennessee Association of Middle Schools

Eugene Volokh

Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA

Ashley Zohn

Vice President of Learning & Impact, Knight Foundation

Holly Kurtz, PhD

Director, EdWeek Research Center

Holly Kurtz directs the EdWeek Research Center, which produces standalone studies as well as analyses for Education Week and special reports such as Quality Counts. Kurtz began working at Education Week in 2014 after earning a Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado at Denver’s School of Public Affairs. Prior to attending graduate school, she spent 11 years covering education and other topics for newspapers in Florida, Alabama, and Colorado.

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