The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students LearnKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007年12月18日 - 288 頁 If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out racist, sexist, and elitist language in classroom and library materials. But according to Diane Ravitch, a leading historian of education, what began with the best of intentions has veered toward bizarre extremes. At a time when we celebrate and encourage diversity, young readers are fed bowdlerized texts, devoid of the references that give these works their meaning and vitality. With forceful arguments and sensible solutions for rescuing American education from the pressure groups that have made classrooms bland and uninspiring, The Language Police offers a powerful corrective to a cultural scandal. |
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... common understanding of the term. As far as I could tell, they did not actually find any examples of racial or gender bias as most people understand it. There were no stories in which girls or children who were members of a racial or ...
... common understanding of the term. As far as I could tell, they did not actually find any examples of racial or gender bias as most people understand it. There were no stories in which girls or children who were members of a racial or ...
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... common under- standing of the term . As far as I could tell , they did not actually find any examples of racial or gender bias as most people understand it . There were no stories in which girls or children who were members of a racial ...
... common under- standing of the term . As far as I could tell , they did not actually find any examples of racial or gender bias as most people understand it . There were no stories in which girls or children who were members of a racial ...
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... common sense . THE HISTORY AND USES OF PEANUTS Two of the stories that the bias reviewers rejected were short infor- mational passages about peanuts . One passage described peanuts as legumes , in the same family as peas and beans , and ...
... common sense . THE HISTORY AND USES OF PEANUTS Two of the stories that the bias reviewers rejected were short infor- mational passages about peanuts . One passage described peanuts as legumes , in the same family as peas and beans , and ...
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... common . Second , they rejected the passage because it suggested that people who are blind are somehow at a disadvantage compared to peo- ple who have normal sight , that they are " worse off " and have a more difficult time facing ...
... common . Second , they rejected the passage because it suggested that people who are blind are somehow at a disadvantage compared to peo- ple who have normal sight , that they are " worse off " and have a more difficult time facing ...
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... common sense . As I tried to understand the reasoning of the reviewers , I remem- bered that in 1998 the president of Riverside Publishing had met with our committee to explain how reading passages for the voluntary national test would ...
... common sense . As I tried to understand the reasoning of the reviewers , I remem- bered that in 1998 the president of Riverside Publishing had met with our committee to explain how reading passages for the voluntary national test would ...
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