When people think of censorship, they often picture a dramatic moment – a book banned, a protest silenced, a headline pulled from the front page. But censorship isn’t always loud. Often, it’s quiet and personal – it happens in ways that don’t make national news but still change the course of someone’s life. Before I … Continue reading The Hidden Cost of Silencing Student Voices
What high school journalism teaches
A former high school journalist from the ‘80s visited her old hometown recently and shot some lovely photos of the downtown streets, the artsy old theater, the city park and river running through it, and she put them on her Facebook page. Her journalism teacher, who had also moved away, saw them and said the … Continue reading What high school journalism teaches
