A conservative campaign to ban certain books from schools is prompting other parents to push back. The issue is often framed as the latest 'culture war' battle, but some see democracy itself at stake.
proposed by the Koch-funded Goldwater Institute. No Left Turn in Education did not respond to questions from NPR.
"These kinds of ham-handed efforts to mold discourse through the banning of books or through the banning of movies or through the banning of entire subjects only causes greater interest in them," he says. "Pluralist ideas about the past, multivocality of narratives are threatening ... when you are trying to foster a nation that is really exclusive in terms of its identity," he says.
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