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The first, from PEN America, documented a sharp increase in books removed from school shelves in 2023-24, tripling from the previous school year. More than 8,000 books were pulled in Florida and ...
"With 10,000 school book bans and counting in the 2023-2024 school, we have to take stock of the harm censorship imposes on those most affected—the students," Sabrina Baeta, researcher and ...
Some of the first evidence of censorship of school curriculum in the United States comes during the Civil War, when Southern textbook publishers removed material critical of slavery. [7] [8] After the Civil War, a vigorous movement from groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the South promoted the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ...
In what some in the book publishing industry call "shadow bans" or "soft censorship," the effects are far-reaching: ... most commonly banned picture books during the 2023-24 school year, according ...
The censorship of student media in the United States is the suppression of student-run news operations' free speech by school administrative bodies, typically state schools. This consists of schools using their authority to control the funding and distribution of publications, taking down articles, and preventing distribution.
According to the American Library Association, the number of titles targeted for censorship across school and public libraries surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, the highest levels ever ...
Censorship of educational research databases in the United States has been a concerted political effort since 2016. [1] [2] Activist groups that aim to change school curricula and ban books from libraries and schools are applying political and legislative pressure to limit the content in educational research databases to which libraries subscribe to give students online access to educational ...
University of Illinois professor Emily Knox, author of “Book Banning in 21st Century America,” discusses the recent targeting of reading material in schools and libraries.