It has become increasingly evident that the Banned Books Awareness column must rise and once again light the darkness of censorship.As most readers are aware by now, the award-winning graphic novel, Maus, has been at the center of a massive censorship effort in McMinn County, Tennessee.I was contacted today by […]
Today is the start of #NationalStorytellingWeek. What will you be sharing? I will start with the short I did for the charity anthology, “Mythic Indy”. bit.ly/3iZ26OV
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In 1931, 14-year-old Forrest J. Ackerman wrote a letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the banned book, Tarzan, informing him of an argument he had with his teacher regarding Edgar’s books. I love this! What a brilliant author to write a response that still speaks to people today.
Inspired by the success of Pokémon Go, a Belgian primary school headmaster has developed an online game for people to search for books instead of cartoon monsters, attracting tens of thousands of players in weeks. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/belgians-are-hunting-books-instead-of-pokemon/ar-BBw6N9W?ocid=st The perfect, and logical, progression of Little Free Libraries on a larger scale. This […]
DODEA officials have said implementing similar standards will make it easier for its students when they relocate to other military or public schools. The new standards are said to be more rigorous and easier to understand than current DODEA standards, the agency said. http://www.stripes.com/news/dodea-students-will-tackle-new-literacy-standards-in-grades-6-to-12-when-school-starts-1.425574
The lines in the sand continue to form at colleges across the country. While many colleges are instituting “safe spaces” and banning “trigger words”, some are not coddling their student body. The University of Chicago recently made it clear to its crop of incoming students that academic freedom and inquiry […]
Parents in a school district near Jacksonville, Florida, are trying to remove two frequently challenged books from the Yulee Middle School’s library. According to the parents, books TTYL and its sequel TTFN– two novels in Lauren Myracle’s popular Internet Girls series– are inappropriate for their Middle School children. Florida’s Nassau […]
A simple idea is having an extraordinary impact on literacy and local communities: take a book, leave a book. Students walk up, open the door of a dollhouse-sized wooden box, and take a book. They can keep it, return it, or replace it with one which they have already enjoyed, […]
There is a growing epidemic among the youth of America. It starts during the grade-school years, when parents curtail the development of critical thinking and free will in their children, conditioning them to believe that the world does and will always coddle their fragile sense of self. They are taught […]
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