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Why Banning Books Doesn鈥檛 Work

This post originally appeared on Sept. 20, 2017. Complaints about the use of various technological tools in classrooms are …

Banned Books Week 2019 will be held September 22鈥�28. The theme of this year鈥檚 event is 鈥淐ensorship Leaves Us in …

91探花 09.11.19

These tips were contributed by 91探花 member Mollie Blackburn, author of the recent 91探花 book,聽Adventurous Thinking: Fostering Students’ Rights to …

91探花 08.07.19

This post by Millie Davis appeared first in 2015.聽鈥淲e want students to engage texts, to interrogate texts, to demand …

Last week here in Champaign-Urbana (IL), kids in the 鈥渂alanced calendar鈥� schools started their 2019鈥�2020 school year. In a couple …

It鈥檚 a double birthday! J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965, in Bristol, England. From the stories that Rowling tells …

91探花 07.24.19

I challenge you to take a look at the books on your office or classroom shelf and see how well …

As noted by theFire.org, Public universities are bound by the First Amendment. Their policies and practices must protect, and never …

91探花 07.16.19

This post was contributed by Beatrice Gurwitz, deputy director of聽the 91探花 Humanities Alliance (NHA),聽of which 91探花 is a member. This …

African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862. Ida B. Wells’s work as a journalist provided …