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From the peasantry to trade unions, specific literacy percentage quotas were set for different sectors of Soviet society. For example, the trade union campaign aimed for 100% literacy for its workers by 1923. [10] The Bolsheviks also believed that through literary campaigns they could easily promote Party ideology and shape the population's ...
In August 2020, a diversity committee in the school district for central York County, Pennsylvania, created a reading list for students and community members amid the George Floyd protests. Though it was intended as a guide for students to learn about issues of race, diversity, and culture, the school board used it as a list of books to remove ...
A Banned Books Week "read out" at Shimer College. The event has been held during the last full week of September since 1982. [13] Banned Books Week is intended to encourage readers to examine challenged literary works and to promote intellectual freedom in libraries, schools, and bookstores.
Launched in 2011, it includes age group lists for school classes, [7] [8] [9] children's and YA book reviews, 'books of the month', and resources. [10] The School Reading List website says its recommendations are "curated and reviewed by a small group of librarians, English teachers [ 11 ] and parents who discuss books that have worked well ...
Compulsory reading, required reading or school reading refers to a work of literature that is a required reading assignment in an educational system. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Poland, the list of required reading ( Polish : lektura szkolna ) was established in the early 20th century and has continued till today.
He would blow off his homework and then ace his tests. By the 5th grade, at the red-brick Hamilton Avenue School in nearby Greenwich, he’d published three poems in the school newspaper. One, written after a class lecture about drinking and driving, described the thoughts of a driver as he was dying in a car crash. At school, Joseph was bullied.
Public reading of the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, Worms, Nazi Germany, 1935. Propaganda is a form of persuasion that is often used in media to further some sort of agenda, such as a personal, political, or business agenda, by evoking an emotional or obligable response from the audience. [1]
The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, originally established by the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988, [157] [158] but now conducted by the Office of National Drug Control Policy under the Drug-Free Media Campaign Act of 1998, [159] is a domestic propaganda campaign designed to "influence the attitudes of the public and the news ...