UPDATE: Efforts to Ban Critical Race Theory Now Restrict Teaching for a Third of America’s Kids (Education Week)
See the report: The Conflict Campaign (UCLA)
Note: See re: why resisting censorship, especially as banning disproportionately impacts diverse authors and texts: What we teach about race and gender: Representation in images and text of children’s books:
The fall of 2021 has seen a surge in book banning and even calls for book burnings. See below for the increased number of cases and why we should all resist:
- Gov. McMaster wants investigation of ‘obscene, pornographic materials’ in SC schools
- Texas House committee to investigate school districts’ books on race and sexuality (see over 800 books listed to be banned)
- Virginia school board member says removed books should be burned
- More than 4-in-10 Republicans don’t want schools teaching the history of racism whatsoever: new poll
- Spotsylvania School Board orders libraries to remove ‘sexually explicit’ books
- Goddard school district orders 29 books removed from circulation
- “Anti-CRT” school board candidates are winning
- Book Burning (Holocaust Museum)
- All 850 Books Texas Lawmaker Matt Krause Wants to Ban: An Analysis
Resources
- Statement on Censorship and Professional Guidelines (NCTE)
- Guidelines for Dealing with Censorship of Instructional Materials (NCTE)
- NCTE Intellectual Freedom Center
- The Students’ Right to Read (NCTE)
- The Free Expression Educators Handbook
- More than 600 authors, publishers condemn recent book bans in joint statement
- NCAC Leads Coalition Statement on the Attack on Books in Schools
- #FReadom Campaigns & Actions
[Update]
- ‘Woke,’ ‘multiculturalism,’ ‘equity’: Wisconsin GOP proposes banning words from schools [2021 ASSEMBLY BILL 411]
- South Carolina Legislators Want to ‘Cancel’ Tenure
- Iowa senator calls for felony penalty for distribution of ‘obscene’ materials in schools
- New Hampshire bill would require teachers to put a positive spin on slavery
- A White teacher taught White students about White privilege. It cost him his job.
- A new, more restrictive ‘critical race theory’ law now in effect for Texas schools
- San Antonio’s North East ISD pulls 400 books from shelves for review at request of far-right lawmaker
- In Texas, a Battle Over What Can Be Taught, and What Books Can Be Read
- DeSantis proposes legislation to let parents sue teachers who tell the truth about U.S. history
- Unmasking Moms for Liberty
- The push to ban books in Texas schools spreads to public libraries
- Not Just Schools: The Push to Ban Certain Books Has Moved to Texas Public Libraries
- As a Bucks County school district removes LGBTQ books from libraries, families and faculty fear for civil rights
- Oklahoma bill gives parents the right to have a book removed from a school library
- The war on library books
- Fahrenheit 2021: The new political correctness targets books about race and racism | Editorial
[Update – Tennessee]
“Moms For Liberty” says book about MLK violates new law banning CRT in Tennessee
Banned in the U.S.A. Redux 2021: “[T]o behave as educated persons would”
Should South Carolina Ban Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project?
“Fahrenheit 451” 60 Years Later: “Why do we need the things in books?”
dr. p.l. (paul) thomas 