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 to allow school districts to opt out of offering a wide range of diverse books, including those that discuss subjects like racism and LGBTQ issues ...

Elementary schools can choose to exclude certain books with content related to racism and LGBTQ identities when hosting this year’s Scholastic book fairs, the children’s book publisher said.

Literary organizations and authors are criticizing Scholastic this week for its announcement that it will offer certain books that feature themes of LGBTQ identities or race in an optional ...

Schools can opt to display these books — or not. The list includes biographies of the civil rights icon John Lewis and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. By Dana Goldstein Scholastic, ...

By Dana Goldstein The children’s book publisher Scholastic, which had begun separating some books about race, gender and sexuality at school book fairs, said this week it was halting the new ...

New York — Scholastic Inc. will end a widely criticized policy that made it easier for school book fairs not to sell works with racial, disability and LGBTQ+ themes. The children's publisher ...

Children’s publishing house Scholastic has apologized to the Asian-American writer of a children’s book about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II for asking her to remove ...

OKEMOS — Okemos Public School District has canceled their planned Scholastic Book Fairs this fall because the company decided to place “diverse” books in a separate collection — making it ...

From "Goosebumps," "The Adventures of Captain Underpants," and "The Magic School Bus," the book fair was a glorious time to get excited about books and reading, and for some students, an excuse to get ...