” Kasey Meehan, director of PEN’s Freedom to Read Program, said in a statement. “What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives.” Trump’s calls to close theDepartment of Education
Book banning and other forms of information censorship have serious implications for democratic processes, and censorship has become a central theme of partisan political rhetoric in the United States. However, there is little empirical work on the exact content, predictors of, and repercussions of ...
A new PEN America report documents how state legislation across the country is driving an alarming spike in book bans in schools. The report,Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools,expands ontwo previous PEN A...
“These schools are some of the most diverse and high achieving in the nation, making it particularly insulting to strip their shelves of diverse books and erase women, LGBTQ people and people of color from the curriculum to serve a political goal,” said Emerson Sykes, se...
Book Bans How the battle over book bans is playing out in North Texas schools The American Library Association has tracked a national surge in book bans over the past several years, with Texas at the forefront. Jan 22 Fort Worth ISD librarian navigates challenges, finds magic in books...
Students Engaged in Advancing Texas is fighting censorship and book bans in Texas schools and libraries.Students Engaged in Advancing Texas MORE: Book ban battle threatens Texas library system's fate Euless, Texas, high school student Da'Taeveyon Daniels said his school did...
BALTIMORE - Students are weighing in on potential book bans in Carroll County Schools."Everyone deserves to have a voice and at the end of the day, we are the ones that get affected by this policy," Carroll County NAACP Youth Council President Flematu Fofana said.WJZ spoke ...
2:40 How book bans are impacting Asian authorsIn 2023, unique book titles saw a 60% rise in removal or restriction in schools and libraries compared to the previous year.Samira Ahmed, an author of young adult and middle-grade literature, never expected to hire security for events, travel ...
Then there's the matter of book bans, a part of the controversies over what can and can't be taught in schools. It turns out book bans over topics of race and history are really unpopular across party lines, with big majorities of Republicans opposed. Whether a book deals with race,...
Most public school parents are confident in the appropriateness of their school’s book selections. The study also found that 78% of all adults say they are confident that their community’s public schools select appropriate books for students to read. ...