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You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news. Hacked traffic sign in Los Angeles (photo credit: unknown) YCRT! updates from Tucson, Arizona, where 80 textbooks, along with the entire Mexican-American Studies program, were banned from local high schools in 2012: The House on Mango Street goes to trial: […] 
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. New York Underground Library (photo by Ourit Ben-Haim) YCRT! News Banned in Tucson™ author Patricia Williams takes on the rising tide of academic book bannings, firings, and the growing disregard for scholarship in the USA. Speaking of the growing […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. That’s a photo of my grandson Quentin in the Greenspun Middle School library in Henderson, Nevada. While my wife and I were visiting our kids and grandkids during Thanksgiving week, his school hosted a grandparents’ day. When we walked […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news. Photo © Ruth Orkin YCRT! News I mentioned this Arizona story in a previous YCRT! post. Conservative school board members and parents in Gilbert, a Phoenix-area suburb, decided to cut (literally, with scissors) pages mentioning abortion from an AP biology […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! Mini-Rant In my previous YCRT! post I ranted about a dangerous idea gaining momentum in conservative and religious circles: requiring schools or publishers to put advisory ratings or content alerts on books that might be assigned to elementary […] I’ve been catching up on my reading. No, strike that, there’re be no catching up in my lifetime. I add new books to the pile as fast as I finish the ones already there. The library sent an email alert this morning: an American history text I ordered is in. I don’t normally read textbooks, […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! Rant Another school year has begun and we’re in for a fresh round of book challenges and bannings. This essay provides an excellent overview of educational censorship, and discusses the idea of providing parental advisory ratings for books […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. This post will go out on the first day of Banned Books Week, September 21-27, in honor of those who fight to protect our right to read and write. YCRT! Banned Books Week Editorial Every year conservative pundits line […] |
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