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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... ideas that no reasonable person would consider biased in the usual meaning of that term . The story that I now tell began in 1997 , when President Bill Clinton delivered his State of the Union address . On that occasion , Clinton ...
... ideas that no reasonable person would consider biased in the usual meaning of that term . The story that I now tell began in 1997 , when President Bill Clinton delivered his State of the Union address . On that occasion , Clinton ...
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... idea to fruition , keeping a watchful eye on Congress to see whether it would eventually be authorized . It never was . During the time that the VNT was a live possibility , the first pri- ority was to create test questions . As a new ...
... idea to fruition , keeping a watchful eye on Congress to see whether it would eventually be authorized . It never was . During the time that the VNT was a live possibility , the first pri- ority was to create test questions . As a new ...
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... idea about older women if they read such a story . They might conclude that all women of a certain age behaved in this way . THE ARROGANT KING This story , a folktale from Asia , was about a king who had a marvelous elephant . The king ...
... idea about older women if they read such a story . They might conclude that all women of a certain age behaved in this way . THE ARROGANT KING This story , a folktale from Asia , was about a king who had a marvelous elephant . The king ...
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... ideas that offend anyone . Bias and sensitivity review has evolved into an elaborate and widely accepted code of cen- sorship that is implemented routinely but hidden from public sight . Where did these strange ideas about bias come ...
... ideas that offend anyone . Bias and sensitivity review has evolved into an elaborate and widely accepted code of cen- sorship that is implemented routinely but hidden from public sight . Where did these strange ideas about bias come ...
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... ideas that most people would find unexceptional . They employed a set of assumptions that were outside the realm of what seemed to be common sense . As I tried to understand the reasoning of the reviewers , I remem- bered that in 1998 ...
... ideas that most people would find unexceptional . They employed a set of assumptions that were outside the realm of what seemed to be common sense . As I tried to understand the reasoning of the reviewers , I remem- bered that in 1998 ...
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