Proposals to restrict the freedom to learn and teach continued to proliferate in state legislatures across the nation in 2023, according to a new PEN America report.| PEN America
America's Censored Classrooms 2024 explores how lawmakers are refining educational censorship through informal intimidation and pressure.| PEN America
The GOP’s victory in the 2024 election will have major implications for academic freedom, free speech, and university autonomy.| PEN America
In the 2022–23 school year, PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school classrooms and libraries.| PEN America
These bills enable blanket restrictions on books or curricula for all students—and ultimately empower an ideological assault on public education.| PEN America
PEN America's report on school book bans offers the most comprehensive look at banned books in the 2021–22 school year, with counting more than 2,500 bans.| PEN America