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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. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0375414827 9780375414824 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002040622 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Textbooks--Censorship--United States.<br/>Test bias--United States.<br/>Censorship--United States.<br/>Manuels scolaires--Censure--<br/>Biais dans les tests--<br/>Censure--
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>371.32 Rav   9