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Author:

Ravitch, Diane.

Title:

The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn / Diane Ravitch.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

x, 255 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Textbooks--Censorship--United States.
Test bias--United States.
Censorship--United States.
Manuels scolaires--Censure--États-Unis.
Biais dans les tests--États-Unis.
Censure--États-Unis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index.

Contents:

Forbidden topics, forbidden words -- The new meaning of bias -- Everybody does it: the textbook publishers -- Everybody does it: the testing companies -- Censorship from the right -- Censorship from the left -- The mad, mad, mad world of textbook adoptions -- Literature: forgetting the tradition -- History: the endless battle -- The language police: can we stop them? -- Appendix 1. A glossary of banned words, usages, stereotypes, and topics -- Appendix 2. The Atkinson-Ravitch sampler of classic literature for home and school.

ISBN:

9780375414824
0375414827

LCCN:

2002040622

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