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

By:

Ravitch, Diane

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Knopf, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 255 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

0375414827

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

371.32 21

LOC classification:

LB 3045.7 R256l 2003

Online resources:

Contents:

Forbidden topics, forbidden words -- New meaning of bias -- Everybody does it, the textbook publishers -- Everybody does it, the testing companies -- Censorship from the right -- Censorship from the left -- Mad, mad, mad world of textbook adoptions -- Literature, forgetting the tradition -- History, the endless battle -- Language police, can we stop them? -- Appendices: Glossary of banned words, usages, stereotypes, and topics; Atkinson-Ravitch sampler of classic literature for home and school.

Summary: This book describes the regime of censorship that has quietly spread throughout educational publishing in response to pressure groups from both the left and the right. [The author] has sought to documents the pervasiveness of this phenomenon by obtaining materials from publishers, testing agencies, state boards of education, and professional associations.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	LB 3045.7 R256l 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000128098

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

Forbidden topics, forbidden words --
New meaning of bias --
Everybody does it, the textbook publishers --
Everybody does it, the testing companies --
Censorship from the right --
Censorship from the left --
Mad, mad, mad world of textbook adoptions --
Literature, forgetting the tradition --
History, the endless battle --
Language police, can we stop them? --
Appendices: Glossary of banned words, usages, stereotypes, and topics; Atkinson-Ravitch sampler of classic literature for home and school.

This book describes the regime of censorship that has quietly spread throughout educational publishing in response to pressure groups from both the left and the right. [The author] has sought to documents the pervasiveness of this phenomenon by obtaining materials from publishers, testing agencies, state boards of education, and professional associations.

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