Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books. Here's how book banning emerged—and how it turned school libraries into battlegrounds.
The article examines Iowa's legislative efforts to ban LGBTQ books in schools, focusing on the policies that restrict the teaching of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Topics discussed include Iowa's House File 802 and Senate File 496, the broader national trend of anti-...
In late April during the American National Library Week (April 23 to 29), ALA expects to report its new list of the 10 most-challenged books in the United States. We can also expect an update next month,Publishing Perspectivesunderstands, of PEN America’s major book-ban tracking work and ...
Jones’ cautionary and disquieting testament to the nation’s divisiveness is told in her new memoir, “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America,” a blunt, angry, searching and redeeming story about a woman engulfed by forces and designs she never imagined. It is a glimpse ...
A ban is a potential outcome of a challenge, resulting in the materials being removed from a library or classroom. Teachers can be reprimanded for using restricted material. When a book is banned from a district, "that just means it's not accessible in the media center or the classrooms on...
Book Ban in Florida District Now Includes DictionariesWTF Advocacy group PEN America said Wednesday it was taking the district to court over the decision. Edith Olmsted | Published Jan 10, 2024 Judge Tears Apart Iowa Book Ban, LGBTQ Education Law‘PALL OF ORTHODOXY’ The bill signed by Gov. ...
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Book ban attempts hit record high in 2022, library org says FILE - A pile of challenged books appear at the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. Attempted book bannings and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, according to a new report from...
In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, Newsom stood alongside state school Superintendent Tony Thurmond, saying,“Remarkable that we’re living in a country right now in this banning binge, this cultural purge that we’re experiencing all throughout America and now increasingly here in the ...
According to PEN America, from July 2021 through March 2022, there were nearly 1,600 actions taken in school districts to ban more than 1,100 titles. PEN America defines a banned book as a book that was a "previously accessible book but becomes either completely removed from availability to...