What I didn’t read…

Did anyone besides all theses dead white guys write something worth reading?
 We discussed in class, several weeks ago now, an article by Arthur Applebee that surveyed some 42 Literature anthologies in 1989. In short, his study found that even by 1989,
“some effort has been made to provide balance, particularly in the materials for Grades 7 [...]

“Politically Correct Book Burning”

The title of this post comes from an article I found in me Education & Censorship feed.  The article, by Darren Bernard, outlines what he describes as a shift in the motivation behind challenges to ’controversial’ texts in schools as well as censorship attempts. 
“It’s nothing new for literature to be censored for public reading. When Mark [...]

Student Journalism

Much of the debate surrounding the issue of free speech rights in public schools involves student published magazines and newspapers. I came across a couple of articles in my education and censorship feed that speak to both sides of the issue. On one hand, you have inmany cases a school newspaper or magazine that is [...]

Drawing Lines

When I first moved to Zeeland, Michigan in the summer of 1998, I had no Idea that I was entering the hotbed of censorship & controversy (at least that was how it came to be known in my sophomore year of highschool – I’m sure some of you remember the Zeeland Highschool student who was [...]

Censorship

For most people the word brings a myriad of negative associations to mind – myself included. However, when you combine this word into phrases like ’student censorship’ or ‘censorship in education’ things definately become more heated. As my intrest in this blog is focused on English and Language [...]