Your Rights
- ACLU Freedomwire
- ACLU Freedomwire
- Lots of resources from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for students and young people about everything from censorship to drug tests to dress codes.
- National Youth Rights Association (NYRA)
- NYRA is dedicated to defending the civil and human rights of young people in the
United States, aiming to unify the Youth Rights movement. Fantastic collection of related links and also forums to discuss your opinion on dress codes, the voting age, and more.
- Sound Out
- This organization advocates for meaningful student involvement through school change and offers resources for student activists.
- Peacefire
- Created in August 1996 to represent the interests of people under 18 in the debate over freedom of speech on the Internet, this site has up-to-date news and reports on internet filters and what they really filter out and even offers programs to download to disable the filters.
- Testing
- FairTest
- FairTest
- The National Center for Fair & Open Testing is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound.
- Students Against Testing
- SAT is a nationwide network of young people who resist high stakes standardized testing and support real-life learning.
- GradTestScrewUp
- Let us not forget what happened with the graduation tests that were incorrectly scored and prevented people from graduating...
- Commercialization
- Adbusters
- Adbusters
- The website for the magazine that carries some of the most interesting, funny, subversive writing on the increasing control that corporations have over our lives. The spoof ads are great, too.
- Marketing to Kids
- More creepy stories of advertising's affect on children. Get them hooked while their young...
- Bullying/Harassment
- Raven Days
- Raven Days
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"Surviving Middle School, Junior High, and High School as a Hunted Outsider"
- Voices From The Hellmouth
- After Columbine, if you were already a geek you may have found yourself being profiled by the FBI, become victim to zero tolerance policies, or harassed by your schoolmates even more for being a 'freak.' This article from Slashdot.org discusses what it was like for lots of young people to face an already conformist school culture gone paranoid about potential 'threats.'
- Student's Guide to Surviving Anti-Gay Harassment
- How to deal when homophobia becomes a threat to your safety.
- Miscellaneous
- School House Hype: Two Years Later
- School House Hype: Two Years Later
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An update on the report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice published in 1998 which detailed that despite public perception, school shootings are rare and that school crime is on the decline along with other forms of youth violence.
- Zero Tolerance Nightmares
- Inspired by a case in 1998 where students came forward to admit they had a small bit of alcohol while on a high school band trip which earned them all expulsions, the website details the struggles the students went through and provides links to other stories of zero tolerance in action, plus resources and advice for dealing with ZT policies.
- Association of Metropolitan School Districts
- Organization that represents the 27 metropolitan school districts (32% of the state's students) with info on the site about current budget shortfalls and resources on lobbying the legislature for more school funding.
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- The homepage of the James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Texbook Got Wrong. Just a start to make you think about the biases in textbooks in other subjects. Not much to the site, so after checking it out go read the book.
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