” 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.”
According to an NBC News report, the works of dozens of Black authors are being pulled from school libraries under the guise they are teaching CRT. The analysis surmised that “most of the books targeted for bans don’t teach critical race theory but are written by and about people of colo...
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...
500 instances of book banning in schools, affecting 874 different titles in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America'sIndex of School Book Bans, representing a nearly 30% increase over the previous school year.More than a quarter of the banned books have LGBTQ characters ...
Author Jason Reynolds, the national ambassador for Young People's Literature, has seen several of his own books banned and says the biggest challenge behind book bans involves obscenity. "The truth of the matter is that most of these books are being couched in, they're being like, seated do...
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.
In the U.S. there are Civil Rights statues, as well, that apply to potential book bans. Librarians should know the law, and help other decision makers to understand it, as a first step toward framing their responses to challenges.
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,...
Book Bans St. Francis Area Schools sued for book ban policy Since the policy change, the lawsuit claims at least 46 books were removed or are in the process of being removed from St. Francis schools. Mar 25 ACLU sues Minnesota school district over book bans...