The report comes during Banned Books Week, which first began in 1982 to raise awareness about the importance of free and ...
During the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America recorded 10,046 instances of book bans across 29 states and 220 public school districts. These bans restricted access to the work of 2,662 authors ...
Amid concerns about book bans across the country ... The proposed measure would: “…prohibit public and school libraries from excluding or censoring books because of the origin, background ...
Part of that equality was Black Southerners fighting for an extension of public ... of book bans and into education freedom. Dr. Michelle Christian is a sociologist and a Knox County high school ...
Supporters of the new policy said it protected students from vulgar content — an argument that's been used broadly by those who support restricting books from public school libraries.
In the past year, Grant and her colleagues in the Ewing Public Schools ... In the 2023-24 school year, there were 10,000 instances of book bans across the U.S. — nearly three times as many as the year ...
The freedom to read is something that book bans and censorship take away and limit, alongside attempts to rewrite history textbooks to leave out or erase parts of stories, she said. Public library and ...
Brandon Hall and Tiffany Clark, both newly elected to the State Board of Education, are preparing for their first meeting in Austin.
He chronicled the vast disparities among Harvard students during pandemic-related campus closures, and argues elite campuses remain very unequal in his new book: "Class Dismissed: When Colleges ...
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.
The Latest The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month President Trump’s executive order for the ...