Ravitch, Diane. <br/><br/>
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/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index. 
<br/><br/>Forbidden topics, forbidden words --<br/>New meaning of bias --<br/>Everybody does it, the textbook publishers --<br/>Everybody does it, the testing companies --<br/>Censorship from the right --<br/>Censorship from the left --<br/>Mad, mad, mad world of textbook adoptions --<br/>Literature, forgetting the tradition --<br/>History, the endless battle --<br/>Language police, can we stop them? --<br/>Appendices: Glossary of banned words, usages, stereotypes, and topics; Atkinson-Ravitch sampler of classic literature for home and school. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0375414827 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Textbooks--Censorship--United States.<br/>Test bias--United States.<br/>Censorship--United States.<br/>Libros de texto --Censura <br/>Censura
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB 3045.7   / R256l 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>371.32