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J-Ideas Research Grant

ARLINGTON , Va. ? The Journalism Institute for Digital Education, Activities and Scholarship (J-Ideas) will offer $2,000 in grants to college researchers for new work in the area of the First Amendment and scholastic journalism, Director Warren Watson announced today.

Watson, who heads the J-Ideas project based at Ball State University in Muncie , IN. , said the grants are being made available to encourage scholarship in high school journalism as it relates to the First Amendment.

Watson made the announcement at The Freedom Forum, where educational and scholastic-journalism leaders gathered for a two-day meeting to discuss the First Amendment in our nation's high schools.

The meeting was organized to discuss a landmark, national First Amendment study commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut . The report shows that America 's high schools are leaving the First Amendment behind.

?The Knight research is a major event, and shows that today's schools are not doing enough to teach our most basic rights and encourage students to express them,? said Watson, a former professional editor and vice president at the American Press Institute. ?The study is important both to educators and anyone who cares about the future of journalism.

Watson said a single grant of $2,000 or two, $1,000 grants will be made available and given out at the summer meeting of AEJMC in San Antonio , Texas . The J-Ideas project is being done in conjunction with the Scholastic Journalism Division of AEJMC.

Grant details will be announced on this site.

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