A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.Restrictions on books in public schools have become “rampant and common,” according to a new report by the free speech organization PEN America, so frequent in some states that they are now considered “routine and expected part of school operations.” Kasey Meehan, director of PEN America’s Freedom to Read program, said the frequency and breadth of restrictions over the past four years has begun to desensitize Americans to the banning of books in schools. “There’s this numbness we have,” Meehan said, “toward not just book bans, but...