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

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The instance The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn, Diane Ravitch represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.

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

Title remainder

how pressure groups restrict what students learn

Statement of responsibility

Diane Ravitch

Instantiates

• The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn

Publication

• New York, Knopf, 2003

Bibliography note

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

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• txt

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Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Note to the Reader
• 1.
• Forbidden Topics, Forbidden Words.
• p. 3
• 2.
• New Meaning of Bias.
• p. 19
• 3.
• Everybody Does It: The Textbook Publishers.
• p. 31
• 4.
• Everybody Does It: The Testing Companies.
• p. 50
• 5.
• Censorship from the Right.
• p. 62
• 6.
• Censorship from the Left.
• p. 79
• 7.
• Mad, Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoptions.
• p. 97
• 8.
• Literature: Forgetting the Tradition.
• p. 112
• 9.
• History: The Endless Battle.
• p. 133
• 10.
• Language Police: Can We Stop Them?.
• p. 157
• App. 1.
• Glossary of Banned Words, Usages, Stereotypes, and Topics.
• p. 171
• App. 2.
• Atkinson-Ravitch Sampler of Classic Literature for Home and School.
• p. 203
• Notes.
• p. 235
• Bibliography.
• p. 243
• Index.
• p. 247

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GLAD185062945-B

Dimensions

25 cm.

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x, 255 p.

Isbn

9780375414824

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2002040622

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• n

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b1910932