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America's Classrooms: Frontlines of the First Amendment

See America's Censored Classrooms, supra note 22; Eesha Pendharkar,. Which States Are Considering “Don't Say Gay” Bills and Where They. Stand, Educ. Wk. (Feb.

Alliance for Student Liberty: The Importance of Inclusive Classrooms ...

Classroom censorship and book bans have been on the rise in recent years. Preliminary findings from PEN America found more than 10,000 instances ...

Right-Wing Attacks on Education and Student Expression

... censor, and weaken public education, from early elementary school through higher education. ... American Oversight Sues Florida Department ...

Schools, censorship, and the law - The Hill

In later decisions, the Supreme Court modified this basic principle, effectively allowing schools more authority to censor classroom speech.

A History of Censorship in the United States | Steele

This caused people to fear for the “American way of life.” In response, public libraries began to offer programs and classes for immigrants with the purpose of ...

California Bans Book Bans and Textbook Censorship in Schools

“AB 1078 sends a strong signal to the people of California — but also to every American — that in the Golden State — we don't ban books — we ...

The Censorship of Literature in American Secondary Level Public ...

This section will emphasize why it is important to maintain academic freedom within the classroom for students. Methods that can be applied to ...

Texas imposed new 'educational gag orders' in 2023, says free ...

... students and teachers. In a study released this month, America's Censored Classrooms 2023, the free speech organization found 110 bills ...

Classroom Censorship in Historical Perspective - Medium

The conversation made clear that efforts to censor U.S. classrooms ... [i] Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most ...

Report: Oklahoma lawmakers have proposed the second ... - KOSU

Oklahoma ranks among the top in at least one academic metric: attempts at censorship in the classroom. ... America's Censored Classrooms ...

PEN America Tracks 'Educational Gag Orders'

... education-based efforts in censorship and policy changes. Classroom desks outside William Cullen High School in Queens, a borough of New ...

The US is inspiring education censorship elsewhere - Al Jazeera

The US likes to lecture others on democracy and free speech, but is now leading the way on classroom censorship ... Educators in South America's ...

Free speech watchdog dings Youngkin administration for campus ...

... America's Censored Classrooms. Since the 1920's PEN America has been monitoring freedom of speech in America's schools and colleges. Their ...

'Rapid acceleration' in US school book censorship ... - The Guardian

School districts in 32 states banned 1648 individual titles in the last school year, a report by Pen America found.

Pen America and Pen International - ohchr

The students who have been directly affected—through canceled classes, censored teachers, and decimated school library collections—likely number in the millions ...

“Free Speech Under Attack (Part II): Curriculum Sabotage and ...

... American history, race, and LGBTQ+ issues, and to punish ... The movement to censor classroom discussion is growing more extreme ...

“Why Do They Hate Us So Much?”: Discriminatory Censorship Laws ...

Florida education officials voted to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public-school grades.

Traversing the Hyper-Politicized Landscape of American Education ...

In addition, see PEN America's report, Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools (Friedman & Johnson, Citation2022). 7 ...

Censoring Curricula - The Free Speech Project

The GOP's Critical Race Theory Obsession The Atlantic, May 7, 2021 · Disputing Racism's Reach, Republicans Rattle American Schools The New York Times, Jun. 1, ...

American Lesson Plan: Introduction - American Historical Association

Young and Jonathan Friedman, “America's Censored Classrooms 2023,” PEN America, November 9, 2023, https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms-2023/.