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Federally Funded Afterschool Programs Safe—for Now
While funding for certain afterschool programs was preserved in the spending bill signed April 28, the President's budget is still aiming for elimination of these funds long-term.
What the Trump Budget Means for School Libraries
In addition to Education Department cuts, the budget proposes the wholesale elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Here's what you can do.
Diversity Hashtags Hijacked
YA authors A.C. Thomas and Laura Silverman were among the latest victims of online hate campaigns, an increasingly common and visible problem.
Why "The Hired Girl" Won the 2016 O’Dell Award
The win strikes a chord of redemption for supporters of the controversial book following a wide-ranging discussion over the main character's prejudiced outlooks.
Banned Books Week Announces Comics Focus | ALA 2014
The 2014 American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in Las Vegas this week set the stage for Banned Books Week, scheduled for September 21-27, 2014. This year, Banned Books Week will shine light on banned and challenged comic books and graphic novels. On the show floor, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which provides legal support and expertise to readers, authors, and librarians, debuted a new handbook offering rundowns of commonly challenged comic titles, myths about banned books, and ideas for programming around Banned Books Week.
Higher Ed Administrators Seek To Stem States’ Rush Away From Common Core
The Common Core is set to change the way that K-12 education is administered across the U.S. Or at least it was, until a backlash from educators and politicians put the new set of education standards on hold in some states and rolled them back entirely in others. Now higher education officials, who had previously been largely absent from the debate, are speaking up in favor of the standards.
BookCon To Expand In 2015
This year, the industry trade show Book Expo America (BEA) opened its doors to non-industry types, giving readers one day to flood New York’s Javits Center and connect with literary superstars at BookCon, a fan-driven event that grew out of the previous years’ Power Readers Day. While BookCon was a hit with many, bringing thousands of readers out to fill the show floor and rub elbows with their favorite authors, the event was not without some hiccups. Changes are already in store for next year’s iteration.
BookCon-troversy: Uproar Over Lack of Diversity at BEA’s Consumer Day
One of the publishing industry’s biggest events is in hot water with readers and writers alike as the company has been taken to task for assembling a list of guests at the consumer-centric May 31st BookCon event that consists of 30 white writers. The lack of diversity drew fire on social media, where readers, writers, and book critics have weighed in on the pallid lineup as a symptom of larger problems the publishing industry has in addressing diversity.
FCC Takes Another Swing at Net Neutrality While Netflix Agrees To Pay for Faster Streaming
In the wake of a January court ruling that struck down the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) standards for ensuring that Internet traffic is delivered without bias—a standard industry watchers refer to as ‘net neutrality’—the agency has issued a new proposal outlining a new set of rules to ensure Internet users have uncensored access to the full content of the Internet. Some experts, though, don’t think these new rules will be any more enforceable than those overturned earlier this year.
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