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The manuals included advice for teachers on discussing issues related to systemic racism and LGBTQ families.

The manuals, which were for teachers only, included recommendations for topics like white privilege, systemic racism, and LGBTQ+ identities.

"What these parents [challenging the availability of books depicting nontraditional families] are really doing is demonstrating how fragile their worldview...

Across the country, books and lessons that represent different families and identities to the youngest of learners are increasingly the target of the conservative pushback to efforts to promote diversity

Across the country, books and lessons that represent different families and identities are increasingly the target of conservative pushback — even when theyre for the youngest of learners. Educators and

Across the country, books and lessons that represent different families and identities are increasingly the target of conservative pushback — even when theyre for the youngest of learners. Educators and

Educators and free-speech advocates say the books and lessons caught up in these bans often simply acknowledge the existence of different identities. Thats crucial, experts say, to help young children develop empathy and an understanding of themselves — especially for children whose families include people of color or LGBTQ+ relatives. Of the bans targeting picture books, about three-quarters are books that address LGBTQ+ themes and roughly half mention race, PEN America says.

Across the country, books and lessons that represent different families and identities are increasingly the target of conservative pushback.

When Wes Brown sought out children’s books for his two young sons, he made sure to seek titles that reflected the family he and his husband were building.

When Wes Brown sought out children’s books for his two young sons, he made sure to seek titles that reflected the family he and his husband were building. He found that in one called “The Family Book,” a 2003 picture book by Todd Parr. It depicts families of all kinds: the traditional nuclear family, but […]