About this title: Diane Ravitch's book is an angry look at the censorship that right-wing (and also politically correct left-wing) groups are able to exercise on educational publishers, who hire "bias and sensitivity" experts to ensure that not one word will be offensive to anyone. Accordingly, books showing dinosaurs, women cooking, owls, candy, and angry people are tabu. In one of many insights into the situation, she points out that conservative groups try to make the world represented in textbooks into an idealized version of the past, while more left-leaning groups try to impose an idealized Utopian ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375414824ISBN:0375414827
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Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375414824ISBN:0375414827
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. No edition or printing stated. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2003-04
ISBN-13:9780375414824ISBN:0375414827
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Edition: 6th Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375414824ISBN:0375414827
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 255 Pages. Measures: 6-1/4" x 9-1/2" Clean, tight copy with no writings or markings. Not an Ex-Library Book or a Book Club Edition. Colorfully illustrated dust jacket. Includes A Note to the Reader, 10 Chapters, 2 Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index, and a photograph and a brief biography of the author. read more
"An interesting, eye-opening book. This account was full of great whistle-blowing information, but the presentation was lacking in a way. I am not sure if Diane Ravitch had a word count, or not, but a LOT of what she presented seemed repetitive. Most of the book presented the same information in different ways. Granted, the information NEEDS to be hammered home, but perhaps using a variety of methods, as opposed to just restating the information in varied syntax. On the other hand, I found her two chapters on Literature and History textbooks especially interesting. Also, just to be facetious, I would be interested to see just how many times variations on the word "bowdlerized" appears. All in all, this book is a valuable tool, one that I would suggest everyone in the education field read, especially anyone involved in English or history instruction."
"I don't doubt that there are some censorship issues out there that need to be addressed in education. This book doesn't do much to help the problem though."
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