Academic freedom has long been a core principle of NCSS. In a position statement of 2007, our organization emphasized that “The democratic process involves the ability to freely discuss ideas and values that exist in our society and in other countries. Without this ability in our secondary and higher-level institutions, our democracy would disappear. That is why it is so important to protect the academic rights of teachers and students” (p. 334 of this issue).
Most of the contents of this edition are devoted to the issue of academic freedom. The guest editors, Nancy C. Patterson and Jack L. Nelson, provide their own foreword on page 297, but I would like to complement it with some words about the importance of the contributions they have assembled.
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