Literary Censorship In American Schools
What You Need to Know About the Book Bans Sweeping the U.S.
“[Book bans] diminish the quality of education students have access to and restrict their exposure to important perspectives that form the ...
Banned in the USA: The Mounting Pressure to Censor - PEN America
For nearly an entire school year, students have been banned from accessing books including Skin by Donna Jo Napoli, A Court of Frost and ...
Banned in the USA - PEN America
In response, Alpine and Washington County school districts in Utah banned dozens of books, including The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, I Am Not ...
Book censorship in the United States - Wikipedia
List of other banned books · Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian · And Tango Makes Three · Black Boy · Candide · The Canterbury Tales · Carrie · Catch-22 · The ...
Book Banning, Curriculum Restrictions, and the Politicization of U.S. ...
In Texas, for example, at least 713 books have been banned from public schools, and school districts' and school boards' attempts to censor ...
Book Ban Data | Banned Books - American Library Association
Pressure groups in 2023 focused on public libraries in addition to targeting school libraries. The number of titles targeted for censorship at public libraries ...
Book Bans and the Librarians Who Won't Be Hushed
Suddenly book bans and other forms of censorship in schools and libraries are ascendant across the country, led by organized groups and politicians.
School book bans increased past academic year - USA Today
US public schools banned over 10K books during 2023-2024 academic year, report says · The preliminary data was released at the start of Banned ...
School book bans show no signs of slowing, PEN America finds - NPR
School book bans and restrictions in the US rose 33% in the last school year, according to a new report from the free speech group PEN America.
Book bans in schools jumped 33 percent last year - The 19th News
Censorship, educational intimidation bills and gag orders are all chilling the free exchange of ideas in classrooms, advocates say. (Rena Li for ...
Book Bans Continue to Surge in Public Schools - The New York Times
Several books banned in the United States laid out across a table, among them Toni. From July to December 2023, more than 4,300 books were ...
Book Banning | The Free Speech Center - MTSU
Book banning, the most widespread form of censorship, occurs when books are pulled from libraries, school reading lists, or bookstores ...
Censorship Is Ruining America's Education | YIP Institute
In 9 months alone, over 2 million students were affected. In PEN America's study, 22% of banned books addressed racism, 40% contained LGBTQ+ themes and 9% were ...
Censorship by the Numbers | Banned Books
Every year, the American Library Association compiles data on censorship ... book titles were targeted for removal from schools and libraries. This tops ...
'Eating away at democracy': book bans in US public schools rise by ...
Some of the books banned in more than 20 districts include The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas, Gender ...
Educators' stories about preemptive book bans show how schools are censoring themselves. ... Mary teaches in an American high school, but ...
Report: Last year ended with a surge in book bans - NPR
The free expression group says that from July-December of last year, it recorded 4,349 instances of book bans across 23 states and 52 public ...
Reading, Writing, and Censorship - Rethinking Schools
What is Censorship? · A parent who doesn't want their child to read a particular book. · A parent, teacher, administrator, or school board member who argues that ...
Banned Books, Censored Topics: Teaching About the Battle Over ...
At the same time, schools are mired in debates over what students should learn about in U.S. history. In the last two years, dozens of state ...
Book bans continue to rise in US public schools, libraries - USA Today
Overall, the report found that more than 1,500 unique book titles were removed in the last school year. The organization reported that book bans ...