The 30th anniversary of Tinker

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 34-58

  Zirkel, Perry A ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (5)

1. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969). Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) is the likely father, although the issue of race relations is arguably part of an overlapping stream of litigation.
2. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel, Sharon Nalbone Richardson, and Steven S. Goldberg, A Digest of Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Education (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1995). For a focus on Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988), the modern counterpart of Tinker, see Perry A. Zirkel, "Narrowing the Spectrum of Student Expression," Phi Delta Kappan, April 1988, pp. 608-9.
3. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel, Sharon Nalbone Richardson, and Steven S. Goldberg, A Digest of Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Education (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1995). For a focus on Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988), the modern counterpart of Tinker, see Perry A. Zirkel, "Narrowing the Spectrum of Student Expression," Phi Delta Kappan, April 1988, pp. 608-9.
4. 393 U.S. at 506. The second sentence sowed the seeds for the initial liberal direction of litigation with regard to students' rights. The first sentence provides the basis for the subsequent swing of the pendulum back toward the limitation of those rights.
5. For a thorough analysis of Tinker and its immediate aftermath, see John W. Johnson, The Struggle for Student Rights: Tinker v. Des Moines and the 1960s (Lawrence; University of Kansas Press, 1995). A transcript of the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Tinker and other decisions is available on the Web at http://oyez.at.nwu.edu.