The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn
Argues that the anti-bias and sensitivity guidelines promoted by the Left and the Right exert so much force on educational publishers that the resulting modified and censored student materials are reduced to bland and boring texts
1 online resource (x, 255 pages)
9780307428851, 0307428850
669067068
Forbidden topics, forbidden words
The new meaning of bias
Everybody does it: the textbook publishers
Everybody does it: the testing companies
Censorship from the right
Censorship from the left
The mad, mad, mad world of textbook adoptions
Literature: forgetting the tradition
History: the endless battle
The language police: can we stop them?
Appendix 1. A glossary of banned words, usages, stereotypes, and topics
Appendix 2. The Atkinson-Ravitch sampler of classic literature for home and school
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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