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The Feminist Classroom

by Frances A. Maher, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Basic Books (1994-07)
ISBN: 0465033024
EAN: 9780465033027
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 320 pages
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Drawing on interviews and on-site observations, the authors take the reader into the classrooms of seventeen feminist college professors at six colleges and universities. In showing how integrating feminist and multicultural content revitalizes the classroom, this book portrays innovative teaching in action.

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The House of Intellect: How Intellect, the Prime Force in Western Civilization, is Being Destroyed by Our Culture in the Name of Art, Science and Philanthropy

by Jacques Barzun
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harper (1959)
ISBN: B000NSOSWA
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 276 pages
Edition: 1st
Condition: Used: Acceptable
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As we use them today, the words `intellectual' amd `anti-intellectual' are scarcely more than sixty years old(at the time of printing). Their continual use, in praise and blame, goes back to the Dreyfus Affair and points to the coming of age of the first generation taught under the free-education acts and penny press of the seventies. Men who are thirty today belong to the third generation so brought up, and, if intellectual, bemoan their fate. Misfortune--they feel--degradation, has overtaken the mind in western civilization. They blame capitalism, liberation, the machine, the masses--everything outside themselves, and thus attain the desired statis of victim. The beleaguered intellectual--it is a badge and a position in life.

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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn

by Diane Ravitch
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Knopf (2003-04)
ISBN: 0375414827
EAN: 9780375414824
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 272 pages
Edition: 1
Release Date: 2003-04-15
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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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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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The Learning Mystique: A Critical Look at "Learning Disabilities"

by Gerald Coles
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Ballantine Books (1989-01-15)
ISBN: 0449903516
EAN: 9780449903513
Binding/Media: Paperback - 352 pages
Release Date: 1989-01-15
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Today, with alarming frequency, children of normal intelligence who do not perform at the same level as their peers are branded "learning disabled", the victims of a neurological dysfunction. This book demonstrates that the theories behind neurological explanations are unproven.

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The Making of Intelligence

by Ken Richardson
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Columbia University Press (2000-08-15)
ISBN: 0231120044
EAN: 9780231120043
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 218 pages
Edition: 1
Release Date: 2000-08-15
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What do we mean when we describe a person as intelligent? The concept of intelligence wields a powerful influence on research dealing with the brain and on how individuals progress in society. Yet, remarkably, there is no scientific consensus about the meaning of intelligence. Ken Richardson looks at how intelligence has been characterized and measured in the past, explores current trends in our understanding and uses of the concept, and predicts what form these trends will take in the future. From the writings of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer on evolution and adaptation to the reflections of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky on logical reasoning; from the formulation of early IQ tests by Francis Binet and Henri Simon to their recent, provocative rebirth in the assertions of The Bell Curve by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, The Making of Intelligence is a lucid, judicious, critical analysis of this controversial and important subject.

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The Relevance of Education

by JS BRUNER
Product Group: Book
Publisher: WW Norton & Co (1971-04-01)
ISBN: 0393043347
EAN: 9780393043341
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 175 pages
Edition: 1st
Condition: Used: Very Good
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The School as a Home for the Mind: A Collection of Articles

by Arthur L. Costa
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Publisher: Corwin Press (1991-06-01)
ISBN: 0932935338
EAN: 9780932935335
Binding/Media: Paperback - 192 pages
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Formerly a SkyLight publication

This collection of articles provides you with effective strategies for integrating thinking instruction into your lesson plans and inspiring student thinking.

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Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education

by Henry David Thoreau, J. Parker Huber
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Mariner Books (1999-05-31)
ISBN: 0395947979
EAN: 9780395947975
UPC: 046442947978
Binding/Media: Paperback - 112 pages
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"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know," Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. Uncommon Learning brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first time.

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Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggle

by Himmani Banjeri et al.
Product Group: Book
Publisher: South End Press (1999-07-01)
ISBN: 0896084523
EAN: 9780896084520
Binding/Media: Paperback - 160 pages
Edition: Soft Cover; margin Notes
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Uptaught

by Ken MacRorie
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Publisher: Boynton/Cook Pub (1970-06)
ISBN: 0810458713
EAN: 9780810458710
Binding/Media: Paperback
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In this passionate book, Ken Macrorie lays the blame for classroom dissatisfaction on the faculty, epitomized by Percival the computer, blind electronic enforcer of the academic cliches. Percival asks students to express something worthwhile then denies them a true voice in which to say it. He functions well in the university, dedicated to the free pursuit of truth and organized to systematically prevent it.

Macrorie, once a Percival himself, writes with perception and humor of his own frustrating voyage out of darkness. He admits the feeling of power that came when he discovered the key to what he calls "The Third Way" of teaching, a path toward mutual respect and instructive dialogue.

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