Don’t Let Students Read About Racism?
A couple of observations about the most common books targeted for censorship last year.
Books
Bob Dylan at Emmaus High School, Then and Now
Someone returned a book to EHS after more than forty years. Are there lessons in that?
4 Reasons I’ve Learned to Dislike Assigned Summer Reading
I’ve changed my mind as a parent about summer reading for school. Here’s why.
I Read Banned Books. Do You?
It’s Banned Book Week! I’ve only read four of last year’s most frequent censorship targets: Alexie’s excellent The Absolutely True …
Don’t Ban It!
The most frequent target of censorship attempts in 2015 was John Green’s Looking for Alaska. The year before it was …
Columbus Day Book Review
photo credit: Simon & Schuster I saw a lot of pithy slogans and clever picture quotes on my social networks …
Censorship in Our School District
photo credit: svenwerk via photopin cc The Diary of Anne Frank is a brilliant, harrowing, and ultimately heart-wrenching account of …
Why Librarians are More Important Today than Ever Before
photo credit: cindiann via photopin cc One of the ironies of the information revolution is that finding relevant and accurate …
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