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13 votes
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Free training today to help fight book banning
Tonight at 7 pm Central/8 pm Eastern, there is a free workshop/training to help people learn how to make book résumés for highly targeted books. These would then go on the Unite Against Book Bans...
Tonight at 7 pm Central/8 pm Eastern, there is a free workshop/training to help people learn how to make book résumés for highly targeted books. These would then go on the Unite Against Book Bans website.
Quote from the UABB website on what a Book Resume is:
Book Résumés help teachers, librarians, parents, and community members defend books from censorship. They detail each title’s significance and educational value and are easy to share with administrators, book review committees, elected officials, and board members.
Their goal is to create a process for sourcing these résumés from the community because the ALA cannot keep up with demand (and is drowning with budget cuts).
The registration link for the training is here:
https://givebutter.com/R0SVw921 votes -
Survey results on books that people identify as shaping their life/personality after reading them in high school
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In the US, multi-level barrage of book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
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It’s official: These thirteen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah
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Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas
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Queer Liberation Library offers free LGBTQ books in response to wave of US school bans
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Why ban books when you can ban book awards?: Suburban Illinois district cancels youth chosen Caudill Awards
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Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for US book fairs
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Scholastic Book Fair will discontinue separate collection of race and gender books
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Texas tried to enact more book bans last year than any other US state
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Banned in the USA: The growing movement to censor books in schools
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George Dawson book about racism effectively banned at George Dawson Middle School
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Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’
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US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
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‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books
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I've received a school project where I need to read a book but I've never really wanted to read a book and don't know many books at all. What book should I read?
People like me are why I believe the slippery slope is a fact, not a fallacy... I'm asking this in the context of a school project mainly because of 2 things: 1: 2 of the questions of the project...
People like me are why I believe the slippery slope is a fact, not a fallacy...
I'm asking this in the context of a school project mainly because of 2 things:
1: 2 of the questions of the project are about main and secondary characters and their physical and psychological characteristics, so the book is gonna require those unless I'm misinterpreting those questions.
2: The project is for March 12th so something like 1984 with 300+ pages is probably too long. (Although there are probably many technicalities to blur this, like how much text there is in a page and the actual amount of pages I can read in a given time and how much time can I dedicate to reading the damn book.)
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Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
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ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus has gifted books to high school students across Sweden to try to stem the flow of fake news
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Harry Potter books removed from St. Edward Catholic School due to 'curses and spells'
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James Patterson donates $1.25 million to classroom libraries
9 votes