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2 New Release New Nov 2012/112 pp./PB, $26.95/5378-1 HC, $60/5388-0 large format The Practitioner’s Bookshelf (Language and Literacy Series) “The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who, at no small risk to themselves, refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.” —Bruce Coville, bestselling author “Sooner or later every reading and literature teacher will encounter someone who wants to limit students’ experiences with a text. Keep Them Reading lays out a very common-sense proactive mechanism that is both respectful of parents and community values and students’ and teachers’ rights. Every teacher and administrator should read this handbook and then establish the processes that Lent and Pipkin recommend.” —Nancy G. Patterson, co-editor, Language Arts Journal of Michigan Keep Them Reading An Anti-Censorship Handbook for Educators ReLeah Cossett Lent, national consultant and author, and Gloria Pipkin, former teacher and author. Together, they were honored with intellectual freedom awards from the National Council of Teachers of English as well as the American Library Association. Foreword by Pat Scales “There are no easy answers, but there are lessons to be learned from the ‘good fight’ of classroom teachers who have been victims of the censorship wars.... Keep Them Reading offers sage advice and guidance about what to do when the censor calls.” —From the Foreword by Pat Scales, past president, ALSC at American Library Association Keep Them Reading is a concise handbook for teachers, librarians, administrators, and district personnel about how to prevent censorship in a school or district—and what to do if it happens. Written by two award-winning authors who have devoted much of their careers to anti-censorship work, this book discusses the overall importance of reading in all academic endeavors and demonstrates how challenges and censorship can derail even the best literacy program. Each chapter contains practical tools, advice, and resources for building understanding about issues of intellectual freedom and for creating a plan to help all parties work through challenges before they turn into damaging censorship incidents. The last chapter contains advice from authors who have dealt with censorship, such as Judy Blume, and experts on the subject, such as Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship. Book Features: • Procedures for dealing with censorship challenges before they arise. • Protocols to help teachers and librarians meet challenges and resist censorship. • Samples of actual letters teachers can use to defend their selection of a text. • Detailed suggestions for conducting meetings with parents and district personnel. • Helpful lists of books dealing with censorship, relevant court cases, and national organizations offering support and resources. Also by Releah Cossett Lent Literacy for Real Reading, Thinking, and Learning in the Content Areas (Middle- through High-School) Foreword by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm 144 pp./PB, $20.95/4943-2 large format, 10 photographs Language and Literacy Series (Practitioner’s Bookshelf) Professors Request Exam Copies at www.tcpress.com/form1.html
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