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The movement to ban books is growing, report finds

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Texas has banned 801 books across 22 school districts. 174 titles were banned at least twice between July 2021 through June 2022. Florida and Pennsylvania followed Texas as the states with the most bans, respectively. The most frequent books removed included Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe.

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The Guardian

‘Rapid acceleration’ in US school book censorship leads to 2,500 bans in a year

School districts in 32 states banned 1,648 individual titles in the last school year, a report by Pen America found

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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Reuters

Organized groups fuel rapid rise in U.S. book-banning, report says

Book bans accelerated across the United States during the 2021-2022 school year, largely through the efforts of organized groups that called on public schools to remove more than 1,600 titles, the writers' group PEN America said on Monday.

1 year ago·United Kingdom

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USA Today

Schools banned books 2,532 times since 2021. It's all part of a 'full-fledged' movement.

Dozens of "parents' rights" groups, including a handful of national organizations with hundreds of local chapters, are helping to drive the challenges.

1 year ago·United States

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CNN

At least 50 groups in the US advocated to ban books in the past year

At least 50 groups have recently played a role in the evolving movement to have books removed from schools, a new PEN America analysis shows.

1 year ago·Atlanta, United States

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The Washington Post

School book bans and challenges, at record highs, are rising again

Attempts to ban books from school libraries in America are on track to rise again this school year, after reaching historic highs the last one, a pair of national reports has found.

1 year ago

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KIFI

At least 50 groups in the US advocated to ban books in the past year - Local News 8

By Nicole Chavez, CNNAt least 50 groups have recently played a role in the evolving movement to have books removed from schools, a new PEN America analysis shows.PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization, released Monday its latest analysis of bans on school library books and class curricula that have occurred in the 2021-2022 school year.Jonathan Friedman, the director of PEN America’s free expression and education progr…

1 year ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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