"Even if the decision was made with good intention," said Scholastic Trade Publishing's Ellie Berger, "we understand now that it was a mistake to segregate diverse books in an elective case.

said some books on Scholastic’s optional titles list — including “Justice Ketanji,” a picture book about the life of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to become a Supreme Court ...

Scholastic is reversing course, saying it will no longer separate diverse stories for school book fairs after weeks of mounting backlash from educators and authors. The educational company ...

Scholastic has reversed a decision ... The children’s book publisher had grouped 64 titles, which feature Black and brown community themes and LGBTQ+ characters, as optional, citing legislation ...

Update: Scholastic has reversed its decision to allow schools to exclude a collection of books about LGBTQ+ characters and Black characters when hosting its book fairs. Read more. Dozens of ...

Elementary schools can choose to exclude certain books with content related to racism and LGBTQ identities when hosting this year’s Scholastic book fairs ... addressing Black and Latino history ...

Reactionary demands to censor books on topics ranging from Black history to LGBTQ+ ... educational leadership. Now, Scholastic, the world’s largest children’s book publisher, has joined ...

By Dana Goldstein Scholastic, the children’s book ... a graphic novel featuring the Black Panther superhero; and a book about different family types, such as adoptive families and families ...

When author Tanisia Moore was growing up in California in the 1990s, the Scholastic ... Black girl. Now a mother of three and an author, one of Moore’s proudest moments was when her picture book ...

If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Amy Ignatow has been organizing the Scholastic Book Fair at her children's school for seven years. She loves the fair, whether it's the ...

Regular readers will not be surprised to know that my childhood identity was that of Book Girl ... but a character merely being Black is "critical race theory." Scholastic, as Legum reports ...