Mapping Book Banning Resistance: Who is involved and what are they doing? (Part 1)

By Dr. Jason J. Griffith (Penn State University) and Dr. Stephanie F. Reid (University of Cincinnati)  As former English teachers and current teacher educators alarmed by widespread upticks in book-banning, we wondered how best to support educators in resisting censorship and preserving students’ right to read. We decided to visualize acts of resistance as reported

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NCSS and Penguin Random House: Speaker Spotlight Fall Series

The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and Penguin Random House are pleased to present the Speaker Spotlight Fall Series! Join us in conversation on Thursday, September 10th at 7:00 PM (ET) with Daisy Hernandez, author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth (Hogarth)—a provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United

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A Conversation with Jared Cooney Horvath & Jonathan Haidt

What do children really need to thrive in an increasingly digital world? On August 25, join Jonathan Haidt and Jared Cooney Horvath for a live virtual conversation about technology, learning, attention, and child development, hosted by Random House. The discussion will explore: • What research reveals about technology and learning • Why more technology doesn’t

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