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PEN America, American Library Association book ban definitions differ. ... This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Banned Books Week: School book bans increased past academic year. Show ...
School districts in South Carolina have already banned certain books, including in September when 17 were deemed inappropriate by the Lexington 2 school district after complaints from parents were ...
Canyon Independent School District sparked outrage after revealing earlier this month that it would be culling the Bible to comply with a Republican-backed state law banning books containing ...
But as a new semester approaches, school curriculums and libraries are battlegrounds for book bans across the country. The free speech advocacy group PEN America indexed bans between July 2021 and ...
[7] [40] [41] Adam Szetela of Newsweek opined that both the right and the left are "guilty" of banning books, citing the ban of To Kill a Mockingbird in California schools, Dr. Seuss' books being pulled from libraries and bookstores, and videos of liberals burning Harry Potter books. [42]
The American Library Assn. reports that in 2022 a record 1,269 demands were made to restrict or ban books and other materials in schools and libraries — up from 156 demands in 2020.
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
Book banning occupied much of the public discourse in recent years as culture wars invaded school board meetings. | Your Feb. 22 Daily Briefing.