PEN America Publishes New Report on 2023 Censorship Efforts in ...

America's Censored Classrooms 2023

During the 2023 state legislative sessions, 110 bills that PEN America defines as educational gag orders were introduced, and 10 became law.

Banned in the USA: Beyond the Shelves - PEN America

In the 2023-2024 school year, the book ban crisis affected 4,231 unique titles, censoring the works of 2,662 authors, 195 illustrators, and 31 ...

PEN America Publishes New Report on 2023 Censorship Efforts in ...

PEN America Publishes New Report on 2023 Censorship Efforts in PK-12 and University Classrooms ... PEN America's new report, America's Censored ...

Nearly 200 Percent Surge in School Book Bans During 2023-2024 ...

The report is the latest in PEN America's Banned in the USA series, started in 2021, which documents and explores educational censorship in ...

Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis - PEN America

This report provides a preliminary look at the current school year. We provide a data summary of book bans from July 2023 to December 2023 and ...

Beyond the Shelves: Three Years of Book Bans and Educational ...

As PEN America has written in our new Banned in the USA report, the crisis of book bans in 2024 is alarming on its own; but it is even more so ...

US Election Eve: PEN America's Book Banning Report

Calling US book bannings 'tragic for young people,' PEN America, four days before the 2024 US election, cites a 200-percent rise in ...

New PEN America Report Finds School Book Bans at Record Levels

The report, 'Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis,' reports 4349 book bans recorded from July to December 2023, with more book bans ...

Banned in the USA - PEN America

In this 2023 banned books update, PEN America recorded more book bans during the fall 2022 semester than in each of the prior two semesters.

Censorship: PEN America Sees US Book Bannings Triple

Banned Books Week in the United States: PEN America lists preliminary research points from its 2023-2024 school year report.

PEN America Finds New State Laws Are Supercharging School ...

In a report released today, PEN America officials said that the organization has counted more than 10,000 cases of book censorship in public ...

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

In the 2022–23 school year, from July 1, 2022, to June 31, 2023, PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school ...

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 ...

6 key points on book bans from new PEN America report

“This escalation follows two years of coordinated efforts to censor books in libraries and classrooms across the country, restricting young ...

America's Censored Classrooms 2024

Since 2021, PEN America has tracked state-level educational censorship legislation in our Index of Educational Gag Orders. In this report, we ...

Book Bans - PEN America

PEN America found more than 10000 book bans in the 2023-2024 school year, more than double the banned books in the previous year.

Memo on School Book Bans from PEN America

PEN America research finds 10,000+ instances of book bans in the 2023-2024 school year—more than double the last school year.

PEN America Reports 200% Surge in Book Bans in 2023-2024

According to a new study by nonprofit organization PEN America, schools have seen a 200% increase in book banning from 2023-2024.

Educational Censorship - PEN America

Our latest report shows a troubling explosion of book bans with the largest numbers of bans in Florida and Iowa. ... Join us to honor PEN America Freedom to Write ...

PEN AMERICA - Update on Book Bans in the 2022-2023 School Year

As noted in PEN America's previous Banned in the USA reports, the movement to ban books that has grown since 2021 is deeply undemocratic, ...