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The impulse in the 1960s and `70s to achieve fairness and a balanced perspective in our nation's textbooks and standardized exams was undeniably necessary and commendable. Then how could it have gone so terribly wrong? Acclaimed education historian Diane Ravitch answers this question in her informative and alarming book, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. Author of 7 books, Ravitch served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993. Her expertise and her 30-year commitment to education lend authority and urgency to this important book, which describes in copious detail how pressure groups from the political right and left have wrested control of the language and content of textbooks and standardized exams, often at the expense of the truth (in the case of history), of literary quality (in the case of literature), and of education in general. Like most people involved in education, Ravitch did not realize "that educational materials are now governed by an intricate set of rules to screen out language and topics that might be considered controversial or offensive." In this clear-eyed critique, she is an unapologetic challenger of the ridiculous and damaging extremes to which bias guidelines and sensitivity training have been taken by the federal government, the states, and textbook publishers. In a multi-page sampling of rejected test passages, we discover that "in the new meaning of bias, it its considered biased to acknowledge that lack of sight is a disability," that children who live in urban areas cannot understand passages about the country, that the Aesop fable about a vain (female) fox and a flattering (male) crow promotes gender bias. As outrageous as many of the examples are, they do not appear particularly dangerous. However, as the illustrations of abridgment, expurgation, and bowdlerization mount, the reader begins to understand that our educational system is indeed facing a monumental crisis of distortion and censorship. Ravitich ends her book with three suggestions of how to counter this disturbing tendency. Sadly, however, in the face of the overwhelming tide of misinformation that has already been entrenched in the system, her suggestions provide cold comfort. --Silvana Tropea
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Before Anton Chekhov and Mark Twain can be used in school readers and exams, they must be vetted by a bias and sensitivity committee. An anthology used in Tennessee schools changed “By God!” to “By gum!” and “My God!” to “You don’t mean it.” The New York State Education Department omitted mentioning Jews in an Isaac Bashevis Singer story about prewar Poland, or blacks in Annie Dillard’s memoir of growing up in a racially mixed town. California rejected a reading book because The Little Engine That Could was male.
Diane Ravitch maintains that America’s students are compelled to read insipid texts that have been censored and bowdlerized, issued by publishers who willingly cut controversial material from their books—a case of the bland leading the bland.
The Language Police is the first full-scale exposé of this cultural and educational scandal, written by a leading historian. It documents the existence of an elaborate and well-established protocol of beneficent censorship, quietly endorsed and implemented by test makers and textbook publishers, states, and the federal government. School boards and bias and sensitivity committees review, abridge, and modify texts to delete potentially offensive words, topics, and imagery. Publishers practice self-censorship to sell books in big states.
To what exactly do the censors object? A typical publisher’s guideline advises that
• Women cannot be depicted as caregivers or doing
household chores.
• Men cannot be lawyers or doctors or plumbers.
They must be nurturing helpmates.
• Old people cannot be feeble or dependent; they
must jog or repair the roof.
• A story that is set in the mountains discriminates
against students from flatlands.
• Children cannot be shown as disobedient or in
conflict with adults.
• Cake cannot appear in a story because it is not
nutritious.
The result of these revisions are—no surprise!—boring, inane texts about a cotton-candy world bearing no resemblance to what children can access with the click of a remote control or a computer mouse. Sadly, data show that these efforts to sanitize language do not advance learning or bolster test scores, the very
reason given for banning allegedly insensitive words and topics.
Ravitch offers a powerful political and economic analysis of the causes of censorship. She has practical and sensible solutions for ending it, which will improve the quality of books for students as well as liberating publishers, state boards of education, and schools from the grip of pressure groups.
Passionate and polemical,
The Language Police is a book for every educator, concerned parent, and engaged citizen.
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Now language is policed.......2007-07-26
Millionaire in 365 Days: The Daily Plan to Get There
Your kids do not have a chance to get anything that may be the truth until it is filtered to suit all kinds of activists agendas.
Do they know facts or a fictional agenda...you decide...it looks like they are getting a lot of bull....and then they start to believe it....
The lunatic asylum is being run by the inmates.......2007-03-10
"How many roads must an individual walk down before you can call them an adult?" (Bob Dylan's song "How many roads must a man walk down/ Before you call him a man?" as modified by state textbook sensitivity regulations.
Today's parents may wonder why more than half of American high school seniors test below the "basic" level (which is the lowest score) in knowledge of U.S. history. But a glance at any high school history book quickly gives the appalling answer: These "textbooks" have been squeezed utterly dry of all meaningful content. The list of words, phrases, concepts, and grammar that is forbidden to be used boggles the mind. By forcibly eliminating a long list of words, concepts and expression, whole subjects can not be written about because the vocabulary to describe them is taboo. Here is a sample of some of the 484 words and phrases that are banned in textbooks in the United States, along with their recommended replacements.
"Able-bodied" (banned as offensive, replace with person who is non-disabled.)
"Bubbler" (banned as regional bias, replace with water fountain.)
"Caveman" (banned as sexist, replace with cave dweller.)
"Courageous" (banned as patronizing when referring to persons with disabilities.)
"Disadvantaged" (banned, replace with reference to the resources or rights that are absent in an individual's or group's life circumstances.)(!)
"God" (banned.) (!)
"Homosexual" (banned, replace with person, child)
"Limping along" (banned as handicapism.)
"Lunatic" (banned as offensive, replace with person with a psychiatric illness.)
"Man and wife" (banned as sexism, replace with husband and wife.)
"Overcoming a disability" (banned as offensive when referring to a person with disabilities.)
"Polo" (banned as elitist.)
"Soda" (banned for regional bias, replace with Coke, Pepsi.)
"Teenager" (banned, replace with adolescent.)
Un-American (banned, no replacement.) (!)
Under the guise of "sensitivity" analysis, a long string of everyday concepts, ideas, beliefs, arguments, accounts and just plane historical description is banned outright from textbook publication. The theoretical idea of sensitivity recommendations does sound helpful: avoid writing about subjects in a way that would deeply distress students who are required to read them. But when you discover to what extreme this lovely idea has been taken, you realize that something very much different than sensitivity is being protected. The result is that practically everything that is written in textbooks about the world, the public, notable people, historic events, religion, war, and society has been tampered with, excised, rewritten, or eliminated to the point that familiar subjects are often unrecognizable. In March 2006, the California textbook review board gave to publishers (already sensitive to the board's predilections) a 126-page list of "suggested (sic) tweaks, trims and fixes" for the next buying season editions. (NY Times 10 Mar 07)
Ms Ravaitch offers some tactics to try to reverse this stupefaction of our children's' education. Yet the problem seems so thoroughly entrenched, the ideologues so determined to get their way at any cost. For the college educated soccer mom who wonders--between kiddy chauffeuring--what she might do to help, the first thing is to buy this book. Then prepare for another 30-years religious war.
Eye Opening and Thought Provoking.......2007-03-03
Did you know that for every textbook and standardized test for school children in America there is a bias review standard that must be met? Did you know that these textbooks and tests are edited to eliminate any topic, word, phrase, illustration, or concept that might be upsetting to a particular student based on gender, race, religion, or content? For example, test questions are encouraged to refrain from mentioning the beach or bodies of water for fear of alienating those students that have no personal experience with these landscapes because of where they live. Textbooks are not to mention the contributions and developments of European history through time because it is seen as too ethnocentric. Instead, history should be illustrated by the assets provided by African, Asian, and Native American influences in an effort to include everyone regardless of historical inaccuracies. Gender, under this theory, should always be portrayed equally by finding replacements for "offensive" terms such as Forefathers, "all men are created equal," or any references to men working as plumbers and lawyers and women as teachers and nurses. This book quotes one editorialist who imagined the Gettysburg Address as it would read in order to comply with sensitivity guidelines: "The Biglerville Address, by Abraham Lincoln: We have a really cool country, and we should keep it that way."
Ravitch has put her finger on why American (excuse me, United States since American should properly include all of North, Central and South America) students are not stimulated by their school work and continue to fall behind their international counterparts. Our society has become so obsessed with political correctness that in our fear to offend we have made textbooks and other school curriculum so bland that students simply ignore it. Other forms of information including TV, movies, and the internet provide students with a variety of sources for information both impartial and biased. But one seeking information can find anything they are looking for through those media. School books, however, have been neutered and dumbed down so as not to offend or represent any person's interests disproportionately. Ravitch points out that this censorship has done a huge disservice to our country's students who are no longer taught to think, analyze, or interpret the information they are provided in school. Not only that, but the information is not always accurate because of the attempts to make everything "fair." She proposes that textbook adoption processes end so that the industry becomes more competitive, that the public demand disclosure of bias screening in American education, and that teachers become better educated themselves so that they can teach without relying on bland textbooks. Regardless of the reader's personal viewpoints, one cannot argue with the premise that children are no longer required to think for themselves under this structure. An extremely eye opening look at the state of American education.
Too Many Chefs Spoil the Pot.......2007-03-01
just as too many critics spoil the textbooks as Diane Ravitich explains in this aptly titled book, "The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn."
Ravitch identifies how pressure groups try to change every book from literature to history to satisfy their agendas, at the sacrifice of the students. In the intensely competitive textbook market, publishers go out of their way to make learning as bland as possible so that it will not offend some group.
In my state, New York, there is a perfect example of textbook manipulation and historical revisionism that makes me bristle. Our history textbooks must include a passage thanking New York tribal Indians for their contribution to the creation of the US Consititution. The Iroquois and other tribes have insisted that this be added to textbooks used in our state. Actually, these tribes came together to solve inter-tribal issues. There was no representation as we know it. The supposed connection comes from a letter that Benjamin Franklin wrote to a friend venting his exasperation at the lack of progress in congress. He cited this confederation of Amerinds saying in effect, if savage Indians can resolve their differences, why not civilized, educated men? This was their contribution!
Other pressure groups of ethnic, religious, national, and political agendas have sanitized books to the point of uselessness. I have borne witness to history texts that I have read about the American Revolution. One passage said that we should thank the Hanseatic League for their contribution to...
The Hanseatic League?
Perhaps one day, people will recognize that not all groups contribute to our economy or our inventions in the same amounts or at the same time. When people realize that revisionism is no substitute for psychotherapy, as Arthur Schlesinger asserts, and they can put learning of our children above petty, personal agendas, our children may learn that Hiroshima is not in Vietnam, and that the Alamo is not a Latin word.
One of the Ravitch's descriptions shows grandpa reshingling the roof so that seniors are not stereotyped as incapable or lacking in energy. Old enough to be a grandfather, I may show just enough energy to reach for my wallet, and let a younger person shingle, while I chill under them.
I also recommend you reach for your wallet to buy this book.
The sequel to Fahrenheit 451.......2006-09-19
In a world where no minority can be discussed without someone being offended, where all special interest groups boycott books and publishers for offensive language, where every conceivable component of society cries and complains of an ism of some sort (e.g. sexism, racism, ageism), it is nearly impossible to convey a message, and even more impossible to retell stories of historical significance. The Language Police shows that political correctness has a strangle hold on textbook publishers, and the grip is slowly restricting the educational airflow necessary for the broadening of young minds.
The Language Police is the real-life sequel to Fahrenheit 451, and proof that much of what Bradbury warned has come true.
What's interesting is that despite the burning, discarding, and trashing, regardless of how powerful the perceived influence may be, the negative effect of literature becomes inconsequential when ubiquitous mass media consistently provides a much less "refined" product. It's truly frightening how this book displays the gap between actual freedom of speech and the eroded pacification to which America's society now abides. When passages are eliminated from classic literature like Macbeth and Huck Finn, the censorship renders literature impotent.
The one negative to this book, despite the fact that it made me weep for the American education system, is that, at times, much of the book felt repetitious. Perhaps it's the nature of the book, the vanilla topic, but finishing this book without feelings of deja vu was difficult.
Nonetheless, it's no wonder why American education is in shambles, and The Language Police perfectly uncovers the erosion. I highly recommend this book to all educators, and to anyone interested in the future of American education.
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Another way to burn a book.(Book Review): An article from: Policy Review
Stephanie Segall
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Title: Another way to burn a book.(Book Review)
Author: Stephanie Segall
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Policy Review (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Issue: 122
Page: 87(6)
Article Type: Book Review
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With more than 200 stunning images by one of the country's top nature photographers, this beautiful and informative book tells the age-old story of how birds migrate to their nesting grounds, select a mate, establish a nest site, and raise their young in the wild. The nesting cycle starts when early migrants return to snow-covered breeding territories. It includes colorful courtship displays; intricate nest-building techniques; egg laying, brooding, and hatching; and the never-ending hunt for food. It also includes ingenious methods of protection and the miraculously quick growth of chicks. It can end with a fall migration flight thousands of miles long. Songbirds, owls, hummingbirds, shorebirds, raptors, waterfowl. . . . All engage in breeding rituals, and all are included here. Featuring a wealth of information conveyed by words and pictures, this handsome book offers a fascinating look at a rarely observed world.
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Glorious Birds.......2006-03-28
"Wings of Spring" is the latest collection of the avian pictures of photographer Tom Vezo. It covers the courtship, nesting and fledging of birds. It is divided into four sections entitled "Territory", "Nesting" "Nurturing" and "Growing". The pictures show birds in intimate circumstances. There are pictures of birds in mating rituals; nests on prairies, cliff sides and amongst ice floes; young birds in the nest, all mouth and scrawny bodies; parents with bugs, berries and reptiles; and downy young birds, venturing out into the world.
Vezo says he was inspired by the bird pictures of the great Eliot Porter. Porter's works were made with large format cameras and huge banks of lights that allowed Porter to take pictures with a deep depth of field and include much of the environment of the birds. Vezo says that he is also interested in capturing not just the bird but it's behavior and environment and he's done that, but because he has not had to rely upon such intense flash, there is little fall off of light in the background of these pictures. Thus we see a photograph of a bird in its environment in much the same lighting as we would see the actual bird, if we were so fortunate as to be present for these activities.
Every work of art has form and content. Because Vezo places emphasis on the environment, he directs more of our attention to the content. In fact, it's interesting to compare the pictures in this book with an earlier volume of his, "Wings in the Wild". There he placed his emphasis on what might be called the near environment, that is, the branch or flower or sandbar upon which a bird was located. Depth of field (and perhaps angle of view) was more limited then in the photographs in the present book so that one was forced to concentrate upon the bird and the near environment. In "Wings of Spring" he has adopted techniques that show us much more of the environment. In fact sometimes Vezo forces us to examine the picture closely to see where the bird ends and the rest of the world begins. Comparing Vezo's earlier work to this book called to mind the dictum of the critic Mark Shorer, who said that "technique is discovery" and to understand that this rule applies as much to photography as literature or any other art. Vezo's change in the use of his tools leads us to discover more about these birds than we knew before.
Each of the pictures is accompanied by useful text by Chuck Hagner, the editor of Birder's World Magazine, that calls our attention to something going on in the picture, or provides further information about the pictured bird.
Although the book includes a picture-by-picture species list, there is no index that includes a way to look up all pictures of a particular species. Thus, while there are pictures of herring gulls under the nesting, nurturing and growing sections, there is no convenient way for the viewer to easily find and compare all the pictures of herring gulls. However, in a book of such excellent photographs of birds, this is a small complaint.
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Robins: Songbirds of Spring
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Popular and Not Popular -- War in the Air WWI.......2003-08-28
The Diary of Lt John M Grider, KIA in France, 1918, as amended and edited by his friend E.W. Springs. Springs believed it would add to the value of the book if he kept it anonymous and mysterious. The book was serialized in a popular magazine in 1926 and created a scandal because it depicts the American boys as womanizers, drinkers, etc. (the racist attitudes of the flyers caused no comment at the time). Later Griders sisters forced Springs to admit that the book was based on their brothers diary, although apparently Springs also included considerable material from his own letters home. Springs was a Princeton graduate from a wealthy family. He was a top pilot and received the DFC, shooting down 5 enemy planes. He wrote some other books but none as popular as this one. This book is gritty and tough, and depicts very well the descent from idealistic recruit to hardened and battle weary veteran.
War Birds review.......2002-01-08
War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator is a fascinating portrait of training and combat for a WWI aviator. It is unclear to me whether the book consists of an actual diary, or is a dramatization written by a friend based on letters written by the aviator main character (see http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/springs.html). The aviator was a real person with real faults (he makes some racist statements), and this makes the story all the more personal. The story reminded me of Catch-22, but is more touching because the triumphs and deaths actually occurred.
The truth about the Air War of WWI.......2000-09-30
Although little is written of the truth to the Air War in WWI, it is often offered to history as a time of chivalry amoungst the "Upper Class Gentleman" of WWI. Most sucessful pilots, that being anymore that 5 kills, were showered with metals and given the highest honors from their fatherlands. Deeming them, The Knights of The Skies. The truth is far from reality. This book of one young man's personal, daily recolection in it's original, unaltered text, depicts the Air War as it really was. Not only can you feel the excitement and astonishment in his mind as he earns his wings in flight school, you also experience the sadness and despair as he watches his squadmates perish and learns the veracity of war and death. Illustrated by Clayton Knight, whose sketches and paintings went on to become famous after the war, this book is a must for anyone who is interested in the true reality of The Air War of WWI.
why don't they identify the author?.......2000-09-29
It was obvious from the wealth of information of those who served with the author that the identity is known. Why not disclose who wrote the diary? We share the experiences. We watch the aviator transform from a fun loving barn stormer to a machine that can only function when airborne. The end comes and you know it is coming, the author is crumbling, his attitude has changed, he operates by reflex and his judgement is impaired. (not by booze but battle fatigue has taken over} This is too real . . .
Great Book.......1998-05-19
Factual every day history of the air war of WWI. This should be required reading for all History Buffs.
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Knowledge is the key to a successful turkey hunt, and this reference packs all the information hunters need into one comprehensive guide. Noted turkey hunting authority Jim Spencer not only thoroughly covers the ins and outs of modern turkey hunting tactics, but also provides comprehensive reports on gear to help hunters of all skill levels improve their chances of bagging these wily birds.
With information on everything from calls and camouflage to guns, loads, and strategies, there is no better volume that places the reader right into the hunting action positioned for success.
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Long with lots of info!.......2004-05-10
This book has a ton of info packed into it. It tells you how to deal with different hunts and situations. Also explains the different calls that you will be using and how to use them. It explains how to prepare for the season and where/how to get yourself a bird. Over all this book is well written and has a great amount of info that will be helpfull in the woods. It is very long and will take awhile to go through but it's worth it. Good luck
Every turkey hunter needs this one.......2003-03-22
I haven't read Turkey it all the way through yet, but that's because it's so well-written I have to keep going back and re-reading chapters and passages just because they sound so good. The part I have read, though, is great, with lots of tips crammed into a very entertaining writing style.
If you like turkey hunting, or if you just like good outdoor writing, do yourself a favor and buy this one.
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Craig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carson’s influential 1962 book, Silent Spring. In his foreword, Paul Brooks, Carson’s editor at Houghton Mifflin, describes the process that resulted in Silent Spring. In an afterword, Linda Lear, Carson’s recent biographer, recalls the end of Carson’s life and outlines the attention that Carson’s book and Carson herself received from scholars and biographers, attention that focused so minutely on her life that it detracted from a focus on her work. The foreword by Brooks and the afterword by Lear frame this exploration within the context of Carson’s life and work.
Contributors are Edward P. J. Corbett, Carol B, Gartner, Cheryll Glotfelty, Randy Harris, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Linda Lear, Ralph H. Lutts, Christine Oravec, Jacqueline S. Palmer, Markus J. Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Craig Waddell. Together, these essays explore Silent Spring’s effectiveness in conveying its disturbing message and the rhetorical strategies that helped create its wide influence.
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Babar and the Runaway Egg
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Based on characters created by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff
Easter rolls in with Babar
On a beautiful spring day, Babar and his children take a stroll through Celesteville. Leaves wave on the trees, flowers bloom . . . and an egg leaps out of its nest and rolls down the hill? A high-spirited chase ensues with five elephants and a mother bird in pursuit of the fast roller. Just as suddenly as it began its journey, the egg rolls to a stop beneath a tree and a more normal rite of spring occurs.
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From bears to Bubbas and all points between, this second installment of stories from master turkey hunter and storyteller Ronnie Strickland is surely the next best thing to hearing them told around the campfire. Cuz's second helping of Southern-fried stories is guaranteed to entertain anyone who's spent time outdoors. As you read this book, you'll realize that your only regret will be not having been there with Cuz as these stories were unfolding.
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The Sultan of Spring
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The Sultan of Spring is a literary salute to the magic and mysticism of spring turkey hunting. The author, Bob Saile, a veteran outdoor writer, takes the reader on a narrative adventure, laced with instructive insight, across the captivating haunts of the wild gobbler. This odyssey reaches from the swamps of South Florida to the cedar- and cactus-dotted canyons of the Rocky Mountain West, with special emphasis on Western and Midwestern turkey hunting. As the author explains, "somehow, something special, something crazy, something remarkable or funny or even spiritual, seems to happen with regularity in the world of turkey hunting."
The reader will find hunt tales, personality profiles, a chapter that chronicles the amazing comeback of the American wild turkey, and much more. There's even a ghost story of sorts, but the turkeys - and what they inspire in those who hunt them - are very real.
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