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The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn / Diane Ravitch ; [with a new afterword].

The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn / Diane Ravitch ; [with a new afterword].
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ISBN 1400030641 (pbk.)
Location 371.32 RAV
Author Ravitch, Diane
Title The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn / Diane Ravitch ; [with a new afterword].
Edition 1st Vintage Books ed.
Published New York : Vintage Books, 2004.
Collation 271 p. ; 21 cm.
General Note "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ... in 2003"--T.p. verso.
Collection code: PSD Professor Stephen Dinham Collection
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-261) and index.
Contents Note 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?
Subject Textbooks -- Censorship -- United States
Test bias -- United States
Censorship -- United States
Language and education -- United States
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