The short video, called “How Tinker v. Des Moines Established Students’ Free Speech Rights,” shows how the landmark 1969 ruling established those rights, acting as a baseline for other cases ...

A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the Madison Local School District for alleged violations of a student’s ...

In fifth grade, I had the privilege of meeting Mary Beth Tinker, of Tinker v. Des Moines fame. In 2006, when I could finally compete myself, I interviewed a former refugee who said her dying wish ...

Recent media coverage involving an ongoing investigation at Elkins High School has raised questions about the boundaries between personal expression and professional conduct within our schools. While ...

In 1969, in Tinker v. Des Moines, the Court ruled that “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the ...

Crews wrote that Rodriguez's claims of a First Amendment violation were viable under the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.

In the 1960s and 1970s, high school student-led activism successfully reshaped school districts across the country.

In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, from 1969, the plaintiffs were 15-year-old John Tinker, 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker, and 16-year-old Christopher Eckhardt ...

The Supreme Court, in Tinker v. Des Moines, held that schools must take a content-neutral stance toward the regulation of student political expression. If students are excused from school to lobby ...