While there isno evidence that critical race theoryis taught in K-12 schools, it is often used as a catch-all term in states' legislation – including Texas' — as a way to limit discussions about race in the classroom. Books that include themes of sexuality, like "...
Immediately after the release of the movie adaptation, it wasrepeatedly challenged or banned in Texas public schools over an 18-month period for themes of racism and sexually-graphic material. Is to kill a mockingbird a true story? Lippincott & Co. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the A...
Naylor's Alice series, which I included in mylist of must read books from the 1980s, has made her one of the most challenged children's authors of all time because she writes honestly about Alice's "agony" of dealing with the transition into tweendom -- socially, biologically and emotio...
The College of the Mainland, a public community college in Texas City, Texas, hasa dedicated pagefor banned books, which explores the history of literature that has been challenged and why certain texts are more in peril than others.
Both Flannery and Tiffany Justice, the co-founder of Moms for Liberty, say they don't believe in banning books. Flannery says books like "All Boys Aren't Blue" should be found in a public library, not in a public school. "The biggest concern is where is the accountability for how the...
Why was it banned or challenged?It was challenged at a school library in Texas for violence and horror.This surprised me because I have a seriously low threshold for horror and I have never been bothered at all, neither have the approximately 150 kids I have read it to over the years. ...
ACLU counts fewer banned books in Texas, but still no process to reinstate them - 10/2/2011 "In its 15th annual report on banned, challenged or restricted books in Texas schools, the Americans Civil Liberties Union found the number of books banned by school districts has decreased in the 20...
Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. This book focuses on book-banning in public schools and libraries, a practice that prohibits or restricts access to books already published, distributed, a... HN Foerstel - 《Library Journal》 被引...
Catch-22 (1961) Joseph Heller Novel Banned in several states: in 1972, it was banned in Srongsville, Ohio (overturned in 1976); in 1974, it was banned in Dallas, Texas, and in 1979 it was banned in Snoqualmie, Washington.[21][why?] ...
Since the organization started tracking public school book bans in July 2021, it has tracked more than 4,000 book bans of 2,253 titles. Two states continue to lead the country in book bans, with seven districts in Texas and 13 in Florida responsible for 795 bans, more than 50 per cent...