A bus of books to be used to close literacy gap in Statesboro, Georgia
As part of an initiative to close the literacy gap in Bulloch County, Georgia, the Bulloch County School Board surveyed over 400 parents in the area about reading. According to… Read more »
School bans backpacks; boy protests by bringing books to school in a microwave
We all remember those Autumn school days, right? Crisp mornings spent trudging through papery leaves, box-fresh stationery jostling in your pencil case, the sweet scent of decay permeating the air. Frosty… Read more »
Ian McEwan reveals a rather absurd incident that only an author of his stature could experience
Are you really the foremost authority on a book you write? That’s the question bubbling up after a bemusing, if slightly awkward, interview with renowned author Ian McEwan. In an interview… Read more »
Chinese activist sues Ministry of Education over homophobic textbooks
The exhausting news of minorities demanding that their government-sanctioned textbooks acknowledge their humanity continues. We’re no stranger to this in the United States. And now, in China, an LGBTQ activist is suing… Read more »
Climate change “might” be real; it “may” be caused by humans; it “could” be very bad.
Last month, we reported on the Portland Public School Board’s decision to “abandon the use of any adopted text or material that is found to express doubt about the severity of… Read more »
Florida school board just can’t deal with these Satanic coloring books
As detailed in a previous MobyLives piece, the Satanic Temple was NOT handing out their self-published coloring and activity book at Orlando-area elementary schools. This didn’t stop the media from… Read more »