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Banned, Restricted, and Contested: The Politics of Censorship in Education
Fri, April 10, 11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1Session Type: Roundtable Session
Abstract
This roundtable explores how censorship reshapes education across policy, media, and community contexts. Papers examine Florida’s restrictive laws, cable news framings of literacy, and emotional responses within ultra-Orthodox schools to new curricula. Analyses of Southern teacher narratives highlight religiously framed opposition, while a fifty-state policy study reveals divergent democratic and anti-democratic trends. These studies show how censorship constructs contested educational spaces, shaping equity, identity, and democratic possibility.
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Book bans and the Science of Reading: Analyzing literacy education coverage on cable news (2022-2023) - Rachel Skrlac Lo, Villanova University; Thomas Ksiazek, Villanova University; Dusy Garcia, Villanova University; Majo James, Villanova University; Gabrielle Girault, Villanova University
Emotional responses of leaders, teachers, and parents from a religious community to a new governmetnal policy - Chajim Erlanger, Tel Aviv University; Izhar Oplatka, Tel Aviv University
State Resistance and Reinforcement: Diverging Paths in (Anti-)Democratic Education Law - Shophika Vaithyanathasarma, Boston College; Sophie Compston, Boston College; Raquel Muñiz, Boston College
The Limitation Effect: Experiences of State Policy- Driven Education Restriction in Florida’s Public Schools - Mica Pollock, University of California - San Diego; Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University; John Diaz, University of California - San Diego; Abigail Richburg, New York University; Elizabeth Blair Cox, New York University; Andrew Matschiner, Chapman University; Emilie Homan, University of California - San Diego; Abdul-Rehman M. Issa, University of California - San Diego
The Southern Teacher Narrative: Religion, Education Policy, and Oppositional Parents - Alexa Muse, University of Oxford