PEN America says there was an "unprecedented" surge in book bans during the latter half of 2023, according to a new report. The free expression group says that from July-December of last year ...

Book bans have escalated for 18 months now, hitting an all-time high in December 2022. Since June 2021, PEN America, a free speech advocacy organization that tracks bans, has recorded more than ...

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.

School book bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according to a new report from the free speech group PEN America, continuing what it calls a worrisome effort aimed ...

As PEN America’s new report Reading Between the Bars shows, books banned in prisons by some states dwarf all other book censorship in school and public libraries. Prison censorship is rising ...

In “Cover to Cover,” PEN America reiterates that its ongoing and urgent message about school book banning is that “it’s not a hoax,” despite new claims on the U.S. Department of ...

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Eric Charbonneau/Getty; Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Book bans are sharply on ...

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PEN cited three national advocacy groups as among the most active in seeking book bans: Moms for Liberty, Citizens Defending Freedom and Parents’ Rights in Education. Friedman, a former New ...

In the 2022-2023 school year, Florida led the nation in the surge of book challenges and bans, according to free expression advocacy group PEN America. This year, the number of bans has more than ...

The Sunshine State led the nation in school book bans for the 2023-24 academic year, according to a new report released Friday. There were 4,561 instances of book banning in Florida public school ...