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Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUL-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
There are some people you just want to plunk down with a whole pile of children's books, and Diane Ravitch is the first person I want at the table. Lady, take a seat.

As Ravitch would tell you, that sexist imperative of mine would earn me a ticket from the people she calls "The Language Police." In her recent jeremiad The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Knopf), Ravitch, an influential education adviser to Republican and Democratic administrations alike, outlines a conspiracy of left- and right-wingers...

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