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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... writing, science, history, and other academic subjects. NAEP periodically reports on the aggregate achievement ofAmerican students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades, but by law it cannot measure the academic performance of any ...
... writing, science, history, and other academic subjects. NAEP periodically reports on the aggregate achievement ofAmerican students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades, but by law it cannot measure the academic performance of any ...
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... writing about the politics of education , I discovered some things that shocked me . Almost by accident , I stumbled upon an elaborate , well - established protocol of beneficent censorship , quietly endorsed and broadly imple- mented ...
... writing about the politics of education , I discovered some things that shocked me . Almost by accident , I stumbled upon an elaborate , well - established protocol of beneficent censorship , quietly endorsed and broadly imple- mented ...
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... writing , science , history , and other academic subjects . NAEP periodically reports on the aggregate achievement of American students in the fourth , eighth , and twelfth grades , but by law it cannot measure the academic perfor ...
... writing , science , history , and other academic subjects . NAEP periodically reports on the aggregate achievement of American students in the fourth , eighth , and twelfth grades , but by law it cannot measure the academic perfor ...
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... written in language that was clear , vivid , and engaging , as well as test questions that gauged children's compre- hension of what they had read . Our committee evaluated many passages for fourth - grade students . The passages had ...
... written in language that was clear , vivid , and engaging , as well as test questions that gauged children's compre- hension of what they had read . Our committee evaluated many passages for fourth - grade students . The passages had ...
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... banal selections . We asked whether his company would choose some readings drawn from myths and fables and other classic literature . He said that they would try , but we had to bear in mind that " everything written before.
... banal selections . We asked whether his company would choose some readings drawn from myths and fables and other classic literature . He said that they would try , but we had to bear in mind that " everything written before.
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