Finds that two-thirds of advisers do not believe administrators influence newspaper content; 4.3% of advisers nationally complied with administrative requests not to publish news articles; 12.2% of advisers believe link exists between administrative funding and news selection; and advisers at two-year colleges and private institutions are…

Investigates whether participation on high school newspaper or yearbook staffs leads to higher grades in freshman college English and a higher overall freshman grade point average. Finds that such out-of-class accomplishments are not good predictors of college outcomes. Finds the ACT composite score to be a good predictor of first collegiate…

Reports that the majority of publications advisers surveyed rejected censorship. Some, however, indicated that it was more important for a school to be protected from potentially damaging articles than for a student publication to be free of school control. (FL)

A test of the knowledge of 378 high school publications advisers, editors, and principals regarding First Amendment rights revealed that advisers had the most knowledge, followed by editors and then by principals. Characteristics of the most knowledgeable advisers were then identified. (GT)

Shows that the initial question in cases of official interference with or public challenges to the decisions of student editors of publications in state-supported schools is whether the editors were performing their editorial functions or their custodial functions. (FL)

Reports on a survey of 474 Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin public high schools, designed to determine practices and attitudes regarding student publications. Notes that the results indicate that there is no consistent approach to high school journalists and no consistent attitude toward them. (GT)