Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says.

Book bans are sharply on the rise, according to a new study by PEN America. PEN America, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness for the protection of free expression through the advancement of ...

A new PEN America report documents how state legislation across the country is driving an alarming spike in book bans in schools. Another new trend highlighted in the report: the mischaracterization ...

A review of recent instances of book banning and censorship with PEN America. According to PEN America, 2,535 instances of book banning occurred in America’s school libraries and classrooms between ...

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Eric Charbonneau/Getty; Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Book bans are sharply on the ...

Despite growing lawsuits and protests against book restrictions, bans continue to spread rapidly, according to a new report. But students are providing a glimmer of hope. PEN America’s annual report ...

Opponents of book bans across the nation see signs of hope in a pair of reports released this week, but they say the data also demonstrated the vast scope of the issue. The American Library ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A new study by PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that Texas leads the nation when it comes to banned books, with more than 800 restricted titles across 22 ...

During the 2022-23 school year, PEN America recorded 3,362 book bans nationally, a 33-percent jump over the previous school year. Florida led the country in book bans, a PEN America report released ...

PEN America has released “a cumulative data summary” of the nearly 6,000 book bans in public schools that the organization has documented since July 2021, identifying two especially noteworthy ...

Advocacy groups played a major role in the bans that took place during the 2021-22 school year, according to PEN America. David Madison / Getty Images It’s Banned Books Week, an annual campaign that ...

As a new report from PEN America aggregates two years of data on book bans to show how they stigmatize specific authors, Lauren Groff — author of “Florida” and the recent novel “The Vaster Wilds” — ...