A guide to (US) student blogging

"Millions of students across the country are speaking their minds in Internet blogs, and some kids are getting punished for it despite their right to free expression," writes the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet civil liberties organization. So the EFF thought students and their parents might want answers to the question: "Just what are students allowed to publish about their school, their teachers, and their classmates?" You'll find them in the organization's just-released guide to student blogging - including the rights of students at public vs. private schools. [A public-school student in New Jersey was recently awarded a $117,000 by a federal judge saying the school district had violated his free-speech rights (see NFN last week), and the (N.J.) Daily Record looks at a different case involving students & tech at a private school.]