The PEN Pod: On the Fight to #BringDannyHome with Amy Kurzweil
“We have to talk about this because we feel that the thing that helps the most is just keeping Danny’s story alive.” More
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In this opinion piece for @dallasnews, David Newman says conversations about literature can help students learn how to argue politics fairly. Banning books deprives students of that opportunity. https://bit.ly/3rCXmoo
We are concerned by Russian prosecutors' move to extend the requested prison sentence for the historian Yuri Dmitriev. PEN America considers the charges against him to be politically motivated retaliation for his work uncovering mass Stalin-era graves:
https://tinyurl.com/yckwsnas.
Finally. The discussion of school libraries in TX we *ought* to be having:
Houston ISD has 276 schools, nearly 200,000 students — and only 58 librarians. Down from nearly 250 librarians about 25 years ago, when the district had 4 fewer schools... #FReadom https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/Houston-ISD-has-276-schools-195-000-students-and-16670584.php
