Language Police : How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
ISBN: 9781400030644 | 1400030641
Format: Trade PaperPublisher: Vintage
Pub. Date: 5/11/2004
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Diane Ravitch is a historian of education and Research Professor of Education at New York University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
If you're anactressor acoedjust trying to do aman-size job, ayes-manwhoturns a deaf earto somesob sister, anheiressaboard heryacht, or abookwormenjoying aboy's night out, Diane Ravitch's internationally acclaimedThe Language Policehas bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Textbook publishers and state education agencie... MORE
If you're anactressor acoedjust trying to do aman-size job, ayes-manwhoturns a deaf earto somesob sister, anheiressaboard heryacht, or abookwormenjoying aboy's night out, Diane Ravitch's internationally acclaimedThe Language Policehas bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Textbook publishers and state education agencie... MORE
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| A Note to the Reader | xi | ||||
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| Afterword | 171 | (12) | |||
| Appendix 1 A Glossary of Banned Words, Usages, Stereotypes, and Topics | 183 | (36) | |||
| Appendix 2 The Atkinson-Ravitch Sampler of Classic Literature for Home and School | 219 | (32) | |||
| Notes | 251 | (8) | |||
| Bibliography | 259 | (4) | |||
| Index | 263 |
Diane Ravitch is a historian of education and Research Professor of Education at New York University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She was assistant secretary in charge of research in the U.S. Department of Education in the administration of President George H. W. Bush and was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board by President Bill Clinton. The author of seven previous books on education, including the critically acclaimed Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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