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Why is the system against high school journalism?

A friend in high school journalism posed a question this morning: why is the system against high school journalism? I think there are two reasons.

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Seven takeaways from the 2011 IHSPA State Conference

Thursday’s 2011 Iowa High School Press Association State Conference was a good but not great production. I say that every year. I’m anxious the month leading up to the annual conference, and I’m calm yet self-critical on the day of. When it’s over, I’m relieved. A few days later: perspective.

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Journalism programs and a living curriculum

Neither scholastic journalism programs nor university schools of Journalism and Mass Communication need to vanish. They don’t need to join with random departments to form the School of Journalism, Mass Communication, and Medieval Criminal Justice in Wartime Prussia.

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