PEN America Publishes New Report on 2023 Censorship Efforts in ...
State Laws Are Behind Many Book Bans, Even Indirectly, Report Finds
That's according to an April 2023 analysis by PEN America, a free speech advocacy group that tracks book bans nationwide. For that report, PEN ...
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Panel of Librarians, Educators Discusses Censorship, Consequences in Wake of Recent State Laws (August, 2023) · Arizona Senate OKs making list of books to ban in ...
Book bans in schools jumped 33 percent last year - The 19th News
Censorship, educational intimidation bills and gag orders are ... That data comes from the PEN America report, “Banned in the USA: The ...
PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922, and headquartered in New York City, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose goal is to ...
The Hydra Nature of Book Banning and Censorship
In Fall of 2022 two researchers set out to explore both scholarly work on censorship and news articles via social media, to help gain a ...
How We're Fighting Censorship: Legal Action %%sep ...
Penguin Random House shares the legal action and support of Pen America in the fight against censorship and book bans across the country ... July 2023: The ...
In the United States, amid increasing political polarization, book banning has grown in prevalence. A new study using a large-scale data set of U.S. library ...
PEN America warns publishers: avoid banning books over moral ...
In a new report, PEN America warns against the cancellation of books due to online outrage—and calls for a broad recommitment to the freedom to ...
These numbers also do not account for the many reports of soft censorship, including increased hesitancy in book selec- tion, ideologically ...
Book ban lawsuit moves forward as Florida district removes over ...
Between January 1 and August 31, 2023, the American Library Association recorded 695 attempts to ban library materials and services, affecting ...
Book Bannings Targeting Black Authors and Perspectives Are ...
Right-wing censorship efforts have risen rapidly across the country, with PEN America recording over 86 school districts implementing book bans ...
Republicans Pushed Almost 400 “Education Intimidation” Bills in ...
Lawmakers in all but four states introduced bills that indirectly censor what's taught in schools, according to a new PEN America report.
Books Bans Reached Highest Level Yet, New Report Finds | TIME
A new report by PEN America, a nonprofit focused on free expression rights, shows that these book bans in the US have reached their highest levels yet.
“Nineteen Minutes,” which follows the unfolding of a school shooting, was the most banned book of the 2023-24 school year. Hundreds of children ...
More than 1,600 books banned during 2021-22 school year, report ...
Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of PEN America, said the recent efforts to ban books are a new phenomenon that has been led primarily by a small ...
States enact 5 laws directly censoring college classroom speech in ...
A Pen America report describes new legislation as “some of the most pernicious assaults on educational speech” ever encountered. Published Oct.
Book Bans Spike by 33% During the Last School Year, According to ...
Since PEN America started tracking public school book bans in July 2021, the organization has recorded nearly 6,000 instances of banned books.
Book Report: A compilation of recent news articles on book banning
At the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, we're tracking developments in the continuing problem of books being banned.
Under Republican State Laws, US Book Bans Nearly Tripled Last ...
PEN America found that 10,000 titles were censored over the last year as new laws went into effect in states including Iowa and Florida.
PEN America, Penguin Random House sue Florida school district ...
Censorship, in the form of book bans like those enacted by Escambia County, are a direct threat to democracy and our Constitutional rights,” ...