Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says.

The PEN report, which counted book removals in school and classroom libraries during the 2022-2023 school year, found 3,362 cases of books being removed, ...

According to PEN America, 4,349 books were banned from schools between July and December 2023, more than the entire previous school year. More than 3,000 of those bans were in Florida.

According to a new study by nonprofit organization PEN America, schools have seen a 200% increase in book banning from 2023-2024. These are the books that have been most-banned during the 2023 ...

A review of recent instances of book banning and censorship with PEN America. According to PEN America, 2,535 instances of book banning occurred in America’s school libraries and classrooms ...

PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from ...

Almost 1,500 school book bans were put into place around the U.S. in the first half of the current academic year, according to PEN America. An analysis from the group released Thursday found 1,477 ...

In Uganda’s refugee schools, books and pencils are luxuries. June 14, 2017 More than ... Pencils and notebooks are few. Temporary classrooms have been battered by heavy winds.

In its recent analysis, PEN found that books about L.G.B.T.Q. people and books that address race and racism and feature characters of color were among the most frequently challenged titles.

Tens of thousands of books have been banned or restricted in U.S. prisons, according to a report by PEN America, a free speech organization that has been tracking book bans in the country. On ...

Some mistakes should never be repeated. A school district not having enough pencils and books is one of them. The Harrisburg School District made headlines constantly in the 1990s for failing to ...