This is all of the sources that I used during all of my research in all of the different assignments that I have wrote. What I did for my research paper was talk about the importance of why banning books is not a good idea and how it can have a negative benefit on students. I also talked about how banning books can also prevent kids from having a full education as well.

Kayata, Erin. “Does Banning Books Really Help Children?” Northeastern Global News, 18 Sept. 2023, news.northeastern.edu/2023/09/14/banning-books-harm-children/. 

This source is about talking about the importance of why it is important to talk about certain subjects with young kids in books even if some of the topics are serious as well as stating that kids may have a different way of learning and the fact that kids may mature differently so that is why they might have different books

How I used it: I used this site to research that each kid will be different than others in terms of reading level and why certain topics are okay to learn about

V=Rascoe, Ayesha, et al. “What People Miss in the Conversation about Banned Books.” NPR, NPR, 31 Jan. 2022, http://www.npr.org/2021/11/22/1058107484/banned-books-list-talk-to-kids. 

This source is talking about what are the importance of banned books and why they should be used and talked about commonly in the classroom. It is also talking about maybe not to ban books but to reconsider some of them

How I used it: I used this site to research what are the benefits of reading certain books that are challenged by many

Snyder, Nancy. “Parental Fear and Cultural Erasure: The Logic behind Banning Books.” BOOK RIOT, 24 June 2020, bookriot.com/logic-behind-banning-books/. 

This source talks about what is the common types of books that are being banned from schools now and why they are being banned. which a lot of them feature people who are black or, LGBTQIA+ people.

How I used this source: I used this source to talk about why certain books are being banned from schools just because of the content that are in the books.

Erica Goldberg                    Associate Professor of Law. “When Are Book Bans Unconstitutional? A First Amendment Scholar Explains.” The Conversation, 12 Sept. 2023, theconversation.com/when-are-book-bans-unconstitutional-a-first-amendment-scholar-explains-176225. 

This source talks about the why banning books in not constitutional because books are a form of speech and why taking away books breaks the first amendment law

How I used it: I used this source in order to talk about the dangers of taking away books from students and what is the consequences of having no freedom of speech because books are a form of speech even though many people do not see it that way.

“Students Want New Books. Thanks to Restrictions, Librarians Can’t Buy Them.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 13 Apr. 2023, http://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/22/students-want-new-books-thanks-restrictions-librarians-cant-buy-them/. 

This source is talking about why students want to have more books that are in their library but are not able to have more books because schools keep taking away books from the library and because of this, people are not reading as much as they should.

How I used it: I used this source to talk about how students feel about books being taken away from the schools and I also used this source to talk about how students are not reading books as much as anymore because they want to have new books

School Book Bans Can’t Stop Online Access to … – The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/books-banned-libraries/.

This site talks about why books can be accessed online even though it might be banned from schools. It also says that with all the technology, no one can really stop anyone from viewing topics that their parents do not want them viewing.

How I used this source: I used this source in order to talk about why book banning can be useless in a way for some people because now they can just access it online through a e library.

“Books Are Being Banned in Public Schools. the Bible Is Rarely One of Them.” Americans United, 24 Oct. 2023, http://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/bible-not-bannedut/#.

This site talks about why the bible is not something that is not being considered or banned at all because most of the people who want to ban books are the ones who usually want to defend the bible as well.

School Libraries Banned More Books than Ever before in 2021 – The …, http://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/07/book-bans-congress-student-library/.

This site talk about that more books are being banned now than usual and why it is causing a lot of problems between people and also what are the type of books that are being banned.

How I used it: I used this source to talk about why a lot of books are being banned commonly and what are the main causes

Shares. “Pros and Cons of Book Banning.” Vision Launch Media, 15 Jan. 2017, visionlaunch.com/pros-cons-book-banning/.

This site is talking about what the positives and the negatives of book banning are and there were quite a variety of lists

How I used it: I used this site for my rebuttal to look at the positives and negatives of book banning in order to have a counter argument

Cihlar, Zach. “Book Ban Opponents Face an Uphill Battle with Current Discretionary Review Standards.” LARC @ Cardozo Law, larc.cardozo.yu.edu/aelj-blog/328/. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.

this site is talking about what is the books that is held in the district and why they are banning the books.

I didn’t use this site that much but I felt like that it had an important benfits