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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 ...
Book banning occupied much of the public discourse in recent years as culture wars invaded school board meetings. | Your Feb. 22 Daily Briefing.
The Central York School District tops the list, having banned 441 books that almost entirely focused on titles related to people of color in a school board meeting on Nov. 9, 2020. The agenda ...
The Nevada Community School District has removed 65 books from school district libraries in order to comply with Senate File 496. The bill, signed into law in May limits the content of certain ...
[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]
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.
According to the American Library Association, 2022 saw the highest number of attempts to ban books since the organization began tracking in 2001. It was also a notable increase of 38% over 2021 ...