Read Banned Books! Banning books from schools and libraries is a crisis in the United States. Restricting what educators can and can’t teach through state laws and school board mandates harms us all and impacts millions of young learners across the country....
Read Banned Books! Banning books from schools and libraries is a crisis in the United States. Restricting what educators can and can’t teach through state laws and school board mandates harms us all and impacts millions of young learners across the country....
Banned Books Week, which was first held in 1982, celebrates the freedom to read as schools and libraries throughout Michigan and across the nation face rising challenges about banning books.
Schools are troubled by the problem whether certain books should be banned from their libraries. Some argue that those books with violence or bad words in should be banned and certain standards in judging books is essential. Others believe that it is parents "responsibility, instead of schools",...
The American Library Associationhas a list of the 10 most challenged books for each year, and the reasons why they were challenged or banned. Authors talk about the experience of having their books banned from schools. Children's Books about Censorship and Media Literacy ...
There are several reasons why books may be banned from schools and libraries. Last year, dozens of Republican state lawmakersintroduced bills that would ban contentthey deemed offensive in schools. PEN America estimates that at least 40% of book bans are connected to either ...
This week isBanned Books Weekin America and around the world. It is just appalling that such an occasion is still called for in this country, but there it is: the banning of books in American public schools, according to the New York Times, has “skyrocketed,” with over 10,000 individu...
The "Harry Potter" books have been banned from a Catholic school in Tennessee because the fictional magic within "are actual curses and spells," according to a pastor who described the beloved series as "a possible threat" to their beliefs.
the McMinn board did our world a strange kind of favor. In the long run, however, the growing rage for banning books from schools andlibraries(or even, in the case of theHarry Potterbooks, burning them,Nazi-style) doesn’t offer a particularly hopeful vision of where this country’s hea...
#BannedbooksBook reviews/Favorite Authors What you need to know about The Bluest Eye Posted on May 6, 2022 by Julia Tomiak / 2 Comments The Bluest Eye is being targeted more often these days in schools and libraries. Learn more about this book. How to encourage reading/News from book ...