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‘Stuck in the Middle’ Editor Ariel Schrag on Reading to Grapple With Real Life Problems

By NCAC|2017-06-09T11:39:42-04:00March 7th, 2017|Banned Books Week, Blog|

Yesterday, NCAC, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and 6 other free speech and education groups defended Ariel Schrag's acclaimed anthology Stuck in the Middle, which had been challenged in a school library in Oklahoma. NCAC joined CBLDF to ask Schrag for her thoughts on the challenge.

CDC Report Shows Why Teens Need Comprehensive Sex Ed. Now

By NCAC Blog|2020-01-03T13:34:09-05:00July 30th, 2009|Blog|

Health education that consists of only an abstinence-only message has disturbing consequences. By depriving teenagers of access to information about their health and bodies in schools, it makes them vulnerable to STD/s and unwanted early pregnancies. The problems of censoring sexual health education are reflected in a recent report released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The report [...]