School Book Bans: The Mounting Pressure to Censor
School book bans continue to spread through coordinated campaigns by a vocal minority of groups, individual actors, and state legislation.
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The freedom to read is under assault in the United States—particularly in public schools—curtailing students’ freedom to explore words, ideas, and books. In the 2022–23 school year, from July 1, 2022, to June 31, 2023, PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school classrooms and libraries. These bans removed student access to 1,557 unique book titles, the works of over 1,480 authors...
Book Censorship in Public Schools and Libraries