The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn

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The work The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn

Title remainder

how pressure groups restrict what students learn

Statement of responsibility

Diane Ravitch

Creator

• Ravitch, Diane
• Ravitch, Diane

Subject

• Censorship -- United States
• Test bias -- United States
• Textbooks -- Censorship -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"Diane Ravitch maintains that America's students are compelled to read insipid texts that have been censored and bowdlerized, issued by publishers who willingly cut controversial material from their books - a case of the bland leading the bland." "The Language Police is the first full-scale expose of this cultural and educational scandal, written by a leading historian. It documents the existence of an elaborate and well-established protocol of beneficent censorship, quietly endorsed and implemented by test makers and textbook publishers, states, and the federal government. School boards and bias and sensitivity committees review, abridge, and modify texts to delete potentially offensive words, topics, and imagery. Publishers practice self-censorship to sell books in big states." "Ravitch offers a powerful political and economic analysis of the causes of censorship. She has practical and sensible solutions for ending it, which will improve the quality of books for students as well as liberating publishers, state boards of education, and schools from the grip of pressure groups."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

UBY

Index

index present

LC call number

LB3045.7

LC item number

.R38 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography