The 2018 “Future of the First Amendment” study marks the seventh time since 2004 that the Knight Foundation has commissioned a survey of high school students and teachers to understand their attitudes toward First Amendment issues.

The 2018 survey, conducted by Kenneth Dautrich of The Stats Group, included core questions used in past surveys to monitor trends as well as new questions about topical issues regarding the First Amendment. The survey also incorporated questions from Gallup’s Knight commissioned First Amendment survey of college students released in March 2018, so high school and college student attitudes could be compared.