Web Resources for High School Students
and Advisers Student Press Sites

Journalism Education Association
The Journalism Education Association, Inc., is the only independent national scholastic journalism organization for teachers and advisers. Founded in1924, JEA is a volunteer organization. Members of the Board of Directors, including the officers, are current or retired journalism teachers who have obtained their positions through national membership elections. The headquarters office, located at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.,is maintained as a clearinghouse for JEA members and programs, and provides essential office services. It also houses the JEA Bookstore and membership records, and it is the site of the JEA Advisers Institute.
http://www.jea.org

American Society of Newspaper Editors High School Project ASNE, with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, provides teacher workshops, a growing number of lesson plans, links to high school student newspaper websites and more. http://highschooljournal.ism.org

Student Press Law Center

The Student Press Law Center is the nation's only legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship.
http://www.splc.org

National Scholastic Press Association

The National Scholastic Press Association serves student media in secondary schools and journalism education programs in the United States and abroad. Membership is by publication, not by school or individual.
http://studentpress.journ.umn.edu/nspa/nspa.html

Columbia Scholastic Press Association
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, organized at Columbia University in the fall of 1924, grew out of several gatherings of editors and staff members from secondary schools in the metropolitan New York area. Services provided by the CSPA include written evaluations, conducted by mail of individual student publications (the annual critiques) and planning and conducting the four conferences and workshops. In addition, the CSPA publishesits bi-monthly journal (Sept.-May), now called SPR Student Press Review, during the academic year.
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cspa

ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights — litigating, legislating and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.
http://www.aclu.org

The ACLU also has a Student Rights page with up-to-date information on that field.
http://www.aclu.org/issues/student/hmes.html

Dow Jones Newspaper Fund

The mission of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund is to improve the quality of journalism education and the pool of applicants for jobs in the newspaper business. It provides internships and scholarships to college students, career literature, fellowships for high school journalism teachers and publications' advisers and training for college journalism instructors. http://djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com/fund/default.asp

RTNDF's High School Journalism Project

Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Who: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF), with your help
What: High School Journalism Project
Where: High schools, television and radio stations across the U.S.
Why: To identify, inspire, train and challenge the next generation of electronic journalists and First Amendment advocates. http://www.rtnda.org/resources/highschool.shtml

Internet Free Expression Alliance
An alliance of those supporting free expression who work to ensure the continuation of the Internet as a forum for open, diverse and unimpeded expression, to promote openness in the use of the Internet and to identify new threats to that openness. Has an excellent list of resources on Internet freedom.
http://www.ifea.net

Peacefire
Founded by college student Bennett Haselton, Peacefire was created in August 1996 to represent students' and minors' interests in the debate over freedom of speech on the Internet. There were very few people in mid-1996 speaking out against blocking software programs like CYBERsitter and Cyber Patrol because most adults would not be affected by the proliferation of these programs. Peacefire's position on these issues is skewed from the “conventional” position of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU and other non-student prominent advocates of free speech.
http://www.peacefire.org

Ethical Spectacle
Founder Jonathon Wallace's says his intent in founding The Ethical Spectacle is to shine a lantern on the intersection at which ethics, law and politics meet (or collide) in our civilization, particularly that part of it known as the United States of America. That includes examining what commonly used words and phrases really mean, as contrasted to what they appear to mean, promoting freedom of speech, compassion, fairness and humility as the fundamental building blocks of private and public life and never forgetting that law is no substitute for morality, that a major part of moral standards cannot be enforced by laws.
http://www.spectacle.org

News Ohio

Can teens make a difference in their communities? Yes, they can. High school, junior high and middle school students can have voice and use it to create a better place to live. NewsOhio can show them the way!

http://newsohio.kent.edu/