Writer's workshops provide students with the appropriate processes they need to learn about publishing and First Amendment freedoms when collaborating on a school newspaper. High school teacher and journalism adviser Janet Ewell outlines the structures students can use for learning to find, research, develop, respond to, and reflect on story…

The first year of the author's job as a high school newspaper adviser was marked by her overenthusiastic acceptance of responsibilities, a plague of printing mistakes, and a search for ways to instill standards of accuracy in student reporters. (RL)

Describes successes encountered in teaching and sponsoring a school newspaper, and encourages others to sponsor school papers despite the pressures operating against such publications. (DD)

The fears of some administrators that the students will go too far in their criticisms of the school usually prove groundless when the importance of developing a sense of responsibility has been stressed to the staff. (Author)

Freedom of the press can be a reality in secondary school publications when a code of ethics approved and developed by both the students and administration has been established. (JB)

Describes a program that gives high school students training in three aspects of journalism as well as field experience. (DD)

Suggests that extracurricular activities have come about in part to appease the guilt of English teachers who, though in love with language, have had to do horrible things to it to meet institutional needs. Reviews the redeeming qualities of student newspapers and drama projects. (TB)

Presents advice on organizing and publishing a school newspaper in the junior high or middle school English class. (RL)

Freedom of the press, censorship, and responsible journalism in high school newspapers are discussed in the first part of the article. The balance of the material provides the readers with an excellent bibliography (descriptors included) for a more in-depth study of the above mentioned areas. (Author/LF)

Lists nine facetious reasons why a faculty member would want to sign on as the advisor to a student newspaper and also one real reason: it represents the culmination of the writing process at its very best. (TB)

Summarizes court rulings on First Amendment protection for student newspapers and relates some of the issues raised by these decisions. (JL)

Discusses benefits and drawbacks to advising a student newspaper, for instance, the difficult balance that must be negotiated between intervening too much or too little, as the case may be, in matters such as usage and spelling. Examines the means an advisor has or does not have to encourage or insist on responsible, ethical standards and…

Presents the advantages of using the computer to produce a school newspaper. Discusses the procedures, the needed equipment, and costs. (EL)

Recounts the events leading up to the dismissal of the author as a student newspaper's faculty advisor. Gives particular attention to a letter-to-the-editor policy that led to controversy and criticism. (TB)