Nov 02 2010
English teacher Shelley Evans-Marshall gave her ninth-grade class an assignment featuring the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books - and lost her job because of it.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio last week dismissed her lawsuit, ruling that a school district's right to control its curriculum outweighs a teacher's First Amendment right to choose her materials and her teaching methods.
Harvard is the storehouse of knowledge because the freshmen bring so much in and the graduates take so little out.
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