Knight Survey: High School Students Support First Amendment More Than Adults

High School students, who rank among the heaviest users of digital media, support First Amendment freedoms more than adults, for the first time in more than a decade, according to a recent survey by the Knight Foundation.

The national study polled 10,463 high school students and 588 teachers and the results, according to Knight, suggest that increased digital news consumption coupled with classroom teaching could be responsible for high school students’ somewhat surprising views.

“Student use of social, mobile and digital media to consume news is at all-time highs, and so is student support of the First Amendment,” said Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president of Knight Foundation.