A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students’ free speech rights. The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their ...

Their Des Moines high school enacted a policy in response that any student wearing an armband to school would be suspended. Several of the students were sent home, and their parents helped them to ...

Student journalists are increasingly in the public eye — and in the crosshairs.

The stops were part of the Tinker Tour, a nationwide effort to increase youth civic engagement. Students from across the metro area gathered in Des Moines to learn about the landmark 1969 U.S ...

Professor Adam Benforado discusses Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) — a high-water mark for student speech — and how student speech rights have been eroded since the decision.