TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravitch,Diane
TI  - The language police: how pressure groups restrict what students learn 
SN  - 0375414827
AV  - LB 3045.7  R256l 2003
U1  - 371.32 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Censorship
KW  - United States
KW  - Test bias
KW  - Libros de texto
KW  - Censura
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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