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PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
According to PEN America's annual book-banning report, restrictions on books have increased 33% since last year, but students offer a glimmer of hope. School book bans have increased 33% since ...
There were more than 4,300 book bans across 23 states and 52 public school districts from July 2023 to December 2023, according to a report from PEN America, a nonprofit organization that fights ...
[8] [10] On January 24, 2025, the Trump Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights dismissed 11 cases regarding challenged books in schools and eliminated an oversight position for investigating such issues. They then issued a press release stating that they had ended what they referred to as "Biden's Book Ban Hoax". [11] [12] [13]
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
The new report reflects on the 5,894 book bans in U.S. public schools documented from July 2021 to June 2023. Their findings illustrated the way copycat bans have become a driving force in the ...
A display of formerly banned books at a US library. Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This ...
The rise in banned books during the 2023-'24 school year—nearly tripling from 3,362 bans PEN recorded the previous year—can be attributed partly to the singling out of books about romance and ...