This informative article from education World is mainly aimed at teachers, but it is useful for anyone concerned with book banning and censorship in schools. Challenges to school materials are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? How can they be avoided?
Banning Books from the Classroom: How to Handle Cries for Censorship
Banning Books from the Classroom:
How to Handle Cries for Censorship Challenges to school materials
are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? How can
What books should be taught in schools? It sounds like a simple question
but the answer can be complex.
Challenges to
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Shameful Book Banning in Rockford, Illinois
Luis J. Rodriguez, a member of the Chicago Local of the
National Writers Union, is a distinguished poet and book
author who works as a peacemaker among Chicago's inner city
gangs. Rodriguez is well qualified to do this, and is
someone who understands
waiting for hand_moderation
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This article from Education World explores the issue of book banning with a special focus on the Rowling's Harry Potter books, and includes a set of resources for establishing procedures in school systems to handle challenges to popular books.
J.K. Rowlings best-selling Harry Potter childrens book series topped the most frequently banned books last year. The sorcerer may head up the list again, for the second year in a row, if the shift in censorship cases continues to focus on books abo...
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Out Harry Potter! -- Book Banning Heats Up J. K. Rowling's
best-selling Harry Potter children's book series topped the most frequently
banned books last year. The books about sorcerers may head up the list
again, for the second
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