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New PEN America Report Finds 33% Jump in School Book Bans ...


New Report: Book Bans Spike by 33% Over Last School Year

Since PEN America started tracking public school book bans in July 2021, the organization has recorded nearly 6,000 instances of banned books.

New PEN America Report Finds 33% Jump in School Book Bans

New PEN America Report Finds 33% Jump in School Book Bans ... In a new report released this week, PEN America found 3,362 instances of books ...

Banned in the USA: The Mounting Pressure to Censor - PEN America

In the 2022–23 school year, PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of books banned, an increase of 33 percent from the 2021–22 school year. Over ...

New PEN America Report Finds 33% Jump in School Book Bans ...

In a new report released this week, PEN America found 3362 instances of books banned in public schools in the 2022-23 school year, ...

New Report Finds Unprecedented Surge in School Books Bans

The number of individual books banned by schools is soaring to a record level according to a new PEN America report Banned in the USA: ...

Book bans in schools jumped 33 percent last year - The 19th News

With 1,406 bans, the Sunshine State accounted for more than 40 percent of the 3,362 instances of book bans PEN America recorded for the 2022-23 ...

Book bans jump 33% in most recent school year | K-12 Dive

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, long hailed as a classic of American and Black literature, is among the books most commonly banned by ...

Book bans jumped by 33 percent last year: report - The Hill

Book ban attempts increased by 33 percent during the 2022-23 school year, a new PEN America report shows.

New PEN America Report Finds School Book Bans at Record Levels

In a new report out this week, PEN America found that the number of individual books banned by schools across the nation surged to record ...

School book bans show no signs of slowing, new PEN America ...

School book bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according to a new report from the free speech group PEN ...

PEN: US School-Year Book Bannings Jump 33 Percent Over Last ...

In its new report released today (September 21), PEN America reveals, “The number of public school book bans across the United States increased ...

New PEN America Report Finds 33% Jump in School Book Bans

"Hyperbolic and misleading rhetoric about 'porn in schools,' 'sexually explicit,' 'harmful,' and 'age inappropriate' materials" has led to ...

Banned Books Week: Two states top list for most of the nation's ...

It's Banned Books Week, and books by James Baldwin, Terry McMillan, Amy Tan and Agatha Christie made PEN America's index of school book bans ...

New PEN America Report Finds 33% Jump in School Book Bans

New PEN America Report Finds 33% Jump in School Book Bans -- Source: Publishers Weekly; Published: 2023-09-21 04:00:00 UTC.

'Eating Away at the Foundations of Our Democracy': Book Bans ...

A new report released Thursday by the free expression group PEN America warns that the Republican-led book banning movement is intensifying ...

Florida now leads the country in book bans, new PEN report says ...

Public schools in Florida banned over 1000 books during the past school year. Nationally, bans targeted books about LGBTQ+ identities, race, ...

Banned in the USA: Beyond the Shelves - PEN America

The 2023-2024 school year recorded the highest instances of book bans and highest number of unique titles banned – over 4,000 unique titles ...

New report finds a coordinated rise in attempted book bans - NPR

Throughout the 2021-22 school year, more than 1,600 book titles were banned, according to a new report by the group PEN America, ...

School book bans have increased 33% over last, but hope is not lost

According to PEN America's annual book-banning report, restrictions on books have increased 33% since last year, but students offer a ...

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.