Keep Them Reading
An Anti-Censorship Handbook for Educators
Published on 16. December 2012
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-0-8077-5388-0 (ISBN)
Description
Keep Them Reading is a concise handbook for teachers, librarians, administrators, and district personnel about how to prevent censorship in a school or district-and what to do if it happens. Written by two award-winning authors who have devoted much of their careers to anti-censorship work, this book discusses the overall importance of reading in all academic endeavours and demonstrates how challenges and censorship can derail even the best literacy program.
Each chapter contains practical tools, advice, and resources for building understanding about issues of intellectual freedom and for creating a plan to help all parties work through challenges before they turn into damaging censorship incidents. The last chapter contains advice from authors who have dealt with censorship, such as Judy Blume, and experts on the subject, such as Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Book Features:
Procedures for dealing with censorship challenges before they arise.
Protocols to help teachers and librarians meet challenges and resist censorship.
Samples of actual letters teachers can use to defend their selection of a text.
Detailed suggestions for conducting meetings with parents and district personnel.
Helpful lists of books dealing with censorship, relevant court cases, and national organisations offering support and resources.
Each chapter contains practical tools, advice, and resources for building understanding about issues of intellectual freedom and for creating a plan to help all parties work through challenges before they turn into damaging censorship incidents. The last chapter contains advice from authors who have dealt with censorship, such as Judy Blume, and experts on the subject, such as Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Book Features:
Procedures for dealing with censorship challenges before they arise.
Protocols to help teachers and librarians meet challenges and resist censorship.
Samples of actual letters teachers can use to defend their selection of a text.
Detailed suggestions for conducting meetings with parents and district personnel.
Helpful lists of books dealing with censorship, relevant court cases, and national organisations offering support and resources.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-5388-0 (9780807753880)
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Persons
ReLeah Cossett Lent is a national consultant and the author of Literacy for Real: Reading, Thinking, and Learning in the Content Areas.
Gloria Pipkin, a former teacher, has written extensively about censorship.
Together, they were honoured with intellectual freedom awards from the National Council of Teachers of English as well as the American Library Association.
Gloria Pipkin, a former teacher, has written extensively about censorship.
Together, they were honoured with intellectual freedom awards from the National Council of Teachers of English as well as the American Library Association.