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50 Years of ERIC
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Plopper, Bruce L.; Conaway, Anne Fleming – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2013
Research showing adolescents' ever-increasing use of digital devices, combined with calls from governmental officials to incorporate more technology into classroom activities, prompted this survey of Arkansas scholastic journalism advisers. The goal was to determine how they used digital communication devices in their teaching. Results showed lack…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Technology Uses in Education, Secondary Education, Poverty
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McCool, Lauralee; Plopper, Bruce L. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2001
Uses the relatively new science of fuzzy logic to review lower court and appellate court decisions from the last four decades regarding free expression in student publications. Finds pronounced effects, showing that fuzzy sets inherently favor administrators, while students show a strikingly high win/loss ratio when courts avoid fuzzy logic. (SR)
Descriptors: Censorship, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
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Plopper, Bruce L.; Downs, William D., Jr. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 1998
Surveys public high school journalism advisors regarding the Arkansas Student Publications Act (1995). Finds that more than one-quarter of respondents were unaware that their school districts were required to have a written student publications policy, and nearly 50% were unaware that they were supposed to be involved in the policy creation…
Descriptors: Censorship, Educational Policy, High Schools, Journalism
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Plopper, Bruce L. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 1996
Synthesizes views of the student press and information about successful political strategy to propose a model for passing state legislation for providing some form of statutory protection for student expression in school-sponsored publications. (SR)
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Models, Politics of Education, Secondary Education