CLASSROOM CENSORSHIP
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Resources for combatting classroom censorship: know your rights guides, talking points, ideas for organizing, and blog posts addressing the erasure of history and culture, banned booklists, and more.
Campaign for Our Shared Future (COSF)
Resources for strategic school board engagement, messaging guidance, and community building.
Educator Defense Fund (Coming Soon)
Rapid-response support services for educators, superintendents, and school board members under attack.
Freedom to Learn (F2L Network
Resources to oppose attacks on educational curricula against intersectionality, critical race theory, Black feminism, queer theory, and other frameworks that address structural inequality.
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)
Resources that help educators promote free expression and challenge censorship: know your rights guides; handbook on responding to censorship; in-take mechanism for reporting incidents of censorship.
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Intellectual Freedom Center
Targeted support to teachers facing challenges in their schools and classrooms: robust assistance hotline for members; guidelines for dealing with censorship of instructional materials.
National Education Association (NEA)
Tools, recommendations, and research on educating students about democracy, educator self-care, culturally responsive education, and opportunities for advocacy.
PEN America
Features an Index for Educational Gag Orders (updated weekly); a collection of actionable research and reports on educational censorship in America; tip sheets to help combat this threat to free expression.
