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My kids’ school doesn’t ban books. I checked. And yours?

September 12, 2011 Stacy Mergenthal Civil Rights, Education, Ideas, Literature/Arts/Film, Youth issues One comment

Students in Missouri’s Republic school district won’t find Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five or Sarah Ockler’s Twenty Boy Summer in their school libraries. Classics like

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Banned or burned, the Koran’s in good company

September 13, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik History 2 comments

By the time you read this, an extremist Christian minister in Florida may or may not have burned copies of the Koran. He is

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