Joanne Jacobs
Just say 'no' to authority
Would-be regulators of "disinformation" are trying to punish deviation from their beliefs, charges journalist Matt Taibbi in The Free...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 292 min read
71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'
College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 202 min read
Judge: 1st-graders' free-speech rights don't matter
After a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. at a southern California elementary school, a seven -year-old white girl drew a picture with...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 102 min read
Why is 'Gender Queer' in the middle-school library?
Parents don't want drag queens or books that feature sex toys in school libraries.
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 252 min read
'I want the library to be there for everyody, not just people who share my voting record'
When a patron donated a book questioning "the transgender craze" to the Blue Hill Public Library, librarian Rich Boulet decided "it...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 14, 20232 min read
Shakespeare's smut: 'Out, out, gosh-darned spot'
There's no need to edit the dirty jokes out of Shakespeare's plays to comply with Florida's new law, according to the state Education...
Joanne Jacobs
May 15, 20232 min read
'Book bans' sound bad, but so does graphic sex in school libraries
President Biden keeps talking about "book bans," writes Andrew Rotherham on Eduwonk. It's become "a nervous tic" for Education Secretary...
Joanne Jacobs
May 4, 20232 min read
40% of 8th-graders are 'below basic' in history
Eighth-graders don't know much about U.S. history and civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which...
Joanne Jacobs
May 3, 20231 min read
Canceling SkippyJon: Everyone wants to censor something
Skippyjon Jones, about a Siamese cat who thought he was a Chihuahua, was a huge hit when it came out in 2003, recalls James V. Shuls. His...
Joanne Jacobs
May 3, 20232 min read
Guns, gays, suicide, smoking ... The show may not go on after all
Can a high school put on Oklahoma without guns? The Theatre Guild at an Ann Arbor (MI) high school revised the classical musical days...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 13, 20232 min read
Was Anne Frank bisexual? Graphic novel -- with breasts! -- is out of school library
The Diary of Anne Frank remains in the Vero Beach High School library, but the Florida school has removed a retelling of the story, Anne...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20232 min read
Rewriting Roald Dahl: Nobody's 'fat' or 'female'
Characters can be "enormous" and "beastly," but not "fat" or "ugly," in the new sensitivity-edited versions of Roald Dahl's children's...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 23, 20221 min read
AI is learning to censor social media, and your taxes are paying for it
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes half a million dollars for research in technology to detect and remove...
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