San Antonio Public Library’s Teen Services Awarded $50,000 for News Know-How...
The American Library Association’s News Know-How initiative has selected the teen services department of the San Antonio Public Library to receive more than $50,000 to train and support kids in grades...
View ArticleCIPA at 10: Internet Filtering Excessive, Study Finds | ALA Midwinter Meeting
A decade after the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) went into effect, its implementation in schools and public libraries is problematic and the scale of Internet filtering is excessive,...
View ArticleALA Report Confirms Negative Impact of Filtering on Student Learning
Internet filtering in schools and libraries is excessive and limits student learning, hurting low-income kids the most, according to a new report from the American Library Association (ALA). “Fencing...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About Banned Websites Awareness Day, September 24
As part of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Banned Books Week campaign to raise awareness about the impact of censorship on intellectual freedom, the American Association of School Librarians...
View Article‘Highland Park Kids Read’ Takes on Censorship Battle in TX School District
The Highland Park (TX) Independent School District (HPISD) has been the focus of a censorship battle between two opposing parental groups, Highland Park Kids Read (HPKR), a nonprofit dedicated to...
View ArticleTwo Books Challenged Again in Highland Park Schools in Texas
Two books that were suspended from Texas’s Highland Park High School’s (HPHS) Approved Book List in September 2014 are now being rechallenged. The titles, The Working Poor: Invisible in America”...
View ArticleKansas May Criminalize Educators for Distributing “Harmful Material”
Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook (R-Shawnee) sponsored Senate Bill 56. School teachers and librarians have cause to be alert. If voted into law by the Kansas legislature, Senate Bill 56 (SB56) would amend a...
View ArticleALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom Wants to Know About Your State’s...
The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) wants to hear about book challenges in your state or region. The OIF is currently finalizing its database on 2014 book...
View Article“King & King”—and Teacher Who Read It—Under Fire in North Carolina
Omar Currie, a third-grade teacher in Efland, NC, has come under fire for reading the picture book King & King (Tricycle Press, 2003) to his class. Written by Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland...
View ArticleALA Addresses its Challenged Book List After Questioning by FiveThirtyEight
Exactly how many books are challenged—and banned—in schools and libraries across the country every year? We may never know. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom...
View ArticleALA Webinars to Help Teachers—and Parents—Understand Censorship
While most librarians are familiar with the issues around intellectual freedom and a student’s right to read, what about their colleagues? Helping students understand censorship is one goal of Banned...
View ArticleAll Schools Need Book Challenge Policies
My first response after reading the results of SLJ’s 2016 self-censorship survey: 100 percent of school libraries should have a book challenge or reconsideration policy, not (as the survey showed) 81...
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