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The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn / Diane Ravitch. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 2003. - x, 255 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
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Textbooks--Censorship--United States.
Test bias--United States.
Censorship--United States.
Manuels scolaires--Censure--
Biais dans les tests--
Censure--
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The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn / Diane Ravitch. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 2003. - x, 255 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
0375414827 9780375414824
2002040622
Textbooks--Censorship--United States.
Test bias--United States.
Censorship--United States.
Manuels scolaires--Censure--
Biais dans les tests--
Censure--
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