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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ravitch, Diane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textbooks--Censorship--United States.

Textbooks.

Test bias--United States.

Test bias.

Censorship--United States.

Censorship.

Textbooks--Censorship.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 255 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf, 2003.

Summary:

In this hard-hitting analysis, the nation's leading historian of American education explains the causes and consequences of the widespread censorship of any potentially offensive language or images from American textbooks.

Contents:

1 Forbidden Topics, Forbidden Words 3

2 The New Meaning of Bias 19

3 Everybody Does It: The Textbook Publishers 31

4 Everybody Does It: The Testing Companies 50

5 Censorship from the Right 62

6 Censorship from the Left 79

7 The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoptions 97

8 Literature: Forgetting the Tradition 112

9 History: The Endless Battle 133

10 The Language Police: Can We Stop Them? 157

Appendix 1 A Glossary of Banned Words, Usages, Stereotypes, and Topics 171

Appendix 2 The Atkinson-Ravitch Sampler of Classic Literature for Home and School 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-245) and index.

ISBN:

0375414827

OCLC:

50802702