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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/24/2023
College Faculty: After K-12, Curriculum Laws are Coming For You
by James Grossman and Jeremy C. Young
State colleges involved with concurrent enrollment programs that allow high school students to take classes for credit are already susceptible to laws purporting to fight "indoctrination" in the secondary school curriculum. More intrusions on academic freedom are coming.
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SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
1/20/2023
National AAUP Condemns Florida University Presidents' Pledge to Root out Critical Race Theory
"The national organization, founded in 1915, stated it was 'appalled at the blatant violation of academic freedom' and said it was exploring options, including an investigation and possible censure."
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1/15/2023
50 Years Ago, "Anti-Woke" Crusaders Came for My Grandfather
by Max Jacobs
In 1972, "Search for Freedom" was rejected for adoption in Texas classrooms after conservative activists launched a national media campaign to attack it as unamerican and corrupting. The author's grandfather wrote the book.
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SOURCE: Firstcoast News
1/4/2022
Jacksonville Schools Consider Rejecting Book on Hank Aaron for Elementary Schools
Does the story of the discrimination Aaron experienced as a teenaged minor-leaguer in Florida run afoul of the state's "Individual Freedom Act"?
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SOURCE: Salon
12/30/2022
I'm a History Professor with 139 Followers. Why Did Elon Ban Me From Twitter?
by Kenneth Osgood
(It was because I called him a "bologna face".)
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SOURCE: Politico
10/24/2022
MAGA Mom Activists Heavily Represented on DeSantis Book Review Panel
Both transparency and expertise seem to have been ignored in the selection of conservative activists to staff a Florida panel implementing new restrictions on school libraries and in-classroom reading materials.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
10/15/2022
The Nation's Most Prolific Censor – So Far
by Adam Hochshild
Operating out of the same building that would later house the Trump International Hotel, Postmaster General Albert Burleson used control of the mails to crush countless publishers deemed subversive. Most of his legal tools are still on the books today.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/17/2022
Book Bans Today Recall 1950s Panic over Comic Books
by Jeremy C. Young and Jonathan Friedman
Child psychologist Fredric Wortham had fough Jim Crow by theorizing the damage caused to Black children by segregation. He had a less likely role in supporting the idea that lurid plots in comic books would create a generation of emotionally damaged adults.
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
9/19/2022
Texas Leading the Nation in Book Banning
Not suprisingly, books dealing with racism and LGBTQ themes are being targeted for removal from library and school shelves, even preventing them from being read voluntarily.
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9/25/2022
Around the World, Censorship of Historians is Tied to Attacks on Democracy
by Ruben Zeeman
Teachers and researchers of history are under attack – sometimes literally – by regimes who seek to make history a foundational element of their legitimacy and authority.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/20/2022
Book Bans Reflect Outdated Views on How Children Read
by Trisha Tucker
Research shows that children are not vessels into which books pour ideas, but co-creators of meaning as they read and process a book. Yet today's moral panic imagines books breaking down barriers between innocent childhood and a corrupt world.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/16/2022
American Library Association: Book Bans Accelerating
“It represents an escalation, and we’re truly fearful that at some point we will see a librarian arrested for providing constitutionally protected books on disfavored topics,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the office of intellectual freedom at the library association.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/12/2022
Today's Book Bans Might be Most Dangerous Yet
by Jonna Perrillo
Today's book banners have broadened their attention from communist themes in textbooks and are attacking young adult literature titles that students are choosing to read, a much more significant intrusion on freedom of thought.
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
9/12/2022
Cuban-American Playwright Censored by Miami-Dade Schools—Is it over "Don't Say Gay"?
Columnist Fabiola Santiago argues that the censorship of the Cuban-American writer's plays by local schools shows that Cuban Americans can't expect the state's escalating culture wars to leave them alone.
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SOURCE: PEN America
8/17/2022
PEN America: The Nation's Censored Classrooms
by Jeremy C. Young and Jonathan Friedman
"The restrictions and chilling effects of gag order laws threaten to destroy the climate of open inquiry required in free and democratic educational institutions."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/17/2022
States Curtailing Students' Access to Books, Ideas
In many states, school librarians will be less free to recommend books, and students less free to explore them, with potentially serious consequences for educational quality and personal and intellectual growth, experts argue.
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SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
8/16/2022
Texas District Removes Graphic Version of Diary of Anne Frank
“It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/9/2022
Fighting Back Against Book Banners
by Margaret Sullivan
Attempts to ban books from public libraries are a threat to democratic culture and should alarm all Americans, argues Post columnist Margaret Sullivan.
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SOURCE: CNN
6/4/2022
Authors of Color Disproportionately Targeted by Book Bans
Angry parents yelling at school board meetings present a picture of these authors' work that they find unrecognizable. Read what several targeted authors say about their books.
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6/5/2022
Regimes Around the World are Manipulating History and Threatening Historians
by Ruben Zeeman
Official attempts to hinder bona fide historical research and debate through legislation or other means, are the first signals that history is at risk of abuse – such efforts abroad are also a warning to historians in America.
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