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CHICAGO – During the 2025 ALA Annual Conference, held June 26–30 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American Association of School Librarians (AASL) President Becky Calzada awarded her Presidential ...
Intellectual freedom is getting a needed boost at the University of Iowa | Opinion Teachers should spend their scarce classroom time teaching about the Federalist Papers and the Gettysburg Address ...
Sixty Texas Baptist pastors signed a “letter of support to Baylor University” saying President Linda Livingston demonstrated ...
An abiding commitment to preserving and enhancing freedom of speech, thought, inquiry and artistic expression is deeply rooted in the history of The New School. The New School was founded in 1919 by ...
Columbia University is on the verge of striking an agreement with the Trump administration following months of negotiation to ...
Gov. Kim Reynolds has just signed into law House File 437, which establishes a Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa. Reynolds did a great service to Iowans – as did Rep ...
Leah Johnson (Freedom Fire), owner of Loudmouth Books in Indianapolis, introduced Ahmed by saying that young people’s literature is “more important now than ever,” and Ahmed’s often ...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says the 50% tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump would trigger the ...
RI POLITICS R.I. House passes ‘Freedom to Read Act’ aimed at curbing library ‘censorship’ Representative Morales said the bill is needed because the state has had 25 attempts to censor ...
Iowa recently established the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa for an estimated initial cost of $1.5 million.
In its report on Confucius Institutes published in 2017, the National Association of Scholars highlighted concerns over transparency, intellectual freedom and censorship of topics including Taiwan and ...