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2011 Muzzle Awards

I had never heard of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression --a Virginia based not-for-profit  "devoted solely to the defense of free expression in all its forms"  --when I stumbled upon this year's Muzzle Awards. The Muzzle Awards are compiled and presented annually each April to entities "who in the past …

Posted 25 months ago by melissa cardinali

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Girls Lean Back Everywhere

Title: Girls lean back everywhere : the law of obscenity and the assault on genius Author: Edward de Grazia Production: New York : Vintage Books, 1993 Check It Out:  KF4775 .D44 1993 . From the Publisher: De Grazia, the attorney who argued and won the Tropic of Cancer case before the Supreme Court, offers a narrative history of censorship--from the jailing of Emile Zola's English publisher through the supression of Joyce's Ulysses, down to recent attempts to …

Posted 25 months ago by Laura Costello

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Reading Banned Books Out Loud

As many teachers know, September is the time for setting classroom routines, meeting families and setting goals for your students. In the frenzy of all the things teachers have to do in a day, we hold on to the routines we enjoy the most, or feel are the most productive. With Banned Books Week running …

Posted 32 months ago by melissa cardinali

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Melissa, These are wonderful first-hand stories of how important reading time is for children (and everyone) and how literature has the magic ability to cast a spell and give readers perspective all in one…

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