Educational Gag Orders: Legislative Restrictions on the Freedom to Read, Learn, and Teach
This report chronicles the alarming spread of legislative efforts in 2021 to constrict education on topics related to race, gender, and American history. More
New PEN America Report Warns About Dangers of Educational Gag Orders
A wave of alarming legislative efforts to limit teaching and learning on topics including racism, sexism, and American history represent a censorious drive to impose viewpoint and content-based restrictions… More
Potential Criminal Charges Against Wyoming Librarians “Astounding Overreach”
PEN America today decries mere suggestion of prosecuting librarians for books stocked in a Wyoming community library. More
The PEN Pod: On Authoritarianism, Abortion Restrictions, and Protecting the Freedom to Learn
“They are people who deserve our support, who’ve been working as human rights defenders inside their countries, who now are faced with the loss of their livelihood.” More
Protecting the Freedom to Learn: A Banned Books Week Reading List
In this reading list, we’ve chosen to spotlight 10 of the 19 books slated for removal or suspension in the Leander Independent School District in Texas. More
Banned Books Week 2021: Suppressing the Freedom to Learn
As we celebrate Banned Books Week, PEN America uplifts the books and writers who insist on telling stories and examining history with truth, honesty, and complexity. More
A Texas Book Ban is an Attack on the Freedom to Learn
Months after the Leander Independent School District banned books and graphic novels from its secondary school curriculum, the district released decisions on an additional set of titles. More
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Join PEN America and @center_higher for "Campus for All" a special workshop series for faculty on balancing tensions between free speech, academic freedom, and diversity and inclusion in the classroom! Program runs 1/11-1/14, 2:30-4:30PM ET. Register at https://bit.ly/3d3p2dI.
Book bans, protest restrictions, educational gag orders... 2021 has been packed with free expression controversies. Let’s make 2022 the year youth voices fight back! Apply now to PEN America’s 2022 Free Speech Advocacy Institute for students: http://bit.ly/3CCyDSR
