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By Marlene Jantsch (editor)

Paperback:

9783709139202 | Springer Verlag, January 7, 2013, cover price $59.99

Miscellaneous:

9780313006708, titled "Banned in the U.S.A: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries" | Rev exp edition (Greenwood Pub Group, August 1, 2002), cover price $60.45 | also contains Banned in the U.S.A: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries

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Product Description: Keep Them Reading is a concise handbook for teachers, librarians, administrators, and district personnel about how to prevent censorship in a school or district-and what to do if it happens. Written by two award-winning authors who have devoted much of their careers to anti-censorship work, this book discusses the overall importance of reading in all academic endeavors and demonstrates how challenges and censorship can derail even the best literacy program...read more

Hardcover:

9780807753880 | Teachers College Pr, November 16, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Keep Them Reading is a concise handbook for teachers, librarians, administrators, and district personnel about how to prevent censorship in a school or district-and what to do if it happens.

Paperback:

9780807753781 | Teachers College Pr, November 16, 2012, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Keep Them Reading is a concise handbook for teachers, librarians, administrators, and district personnel about how to prevent censorship in a school or district-and what to do if it happens.

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Product Description: If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary!Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out racist, sexist, and elitist language in classroom and library materials...read more

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9780375414824 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2003), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Argues that the anti-bias and sensitivity guidelines promoted by the Left and the Right exert so much force on educational publishers that the resulting modified and censored student materials are reduced to bland and boring texts.

Paperback:

9781400030644 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Argues that the anti-bias and sensitivity guidelines promoted by the Left and the Right exert so much force on educational publishers that the resulting modified and censored student materials are reduced to bland and boring texts.

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9781439568569 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary!

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Looks at censorship in American schools and libraries, and includes a section of the fifty most banned books from 1996 through 2000, including newcomer Harry Potter. (view table of contents)

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9780313311666, titled "Banned in the U.s.a.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries" | 2 rev exp edition (Greenwood Pub Group, July 30, 2002), cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Looks at censorship in American schools and libraries, and includes a section of the fifty most banned books from 1996 through 2000, including newcomer Harry Potter.
9780313285172, titled "Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries" | Greenwood Pub Group, March 1, 1994, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Looks at the impact of book banning, ranks the fifty most frequently banned books, and includes interviews with banned authors

Miscellaneous:

9780313006708 | Rev exp edition (Greenwood Pub Group, August 1, 2002), cover price $60.45 | also contains Julius Wagner-jauregg: Lebenserinnerungen

Discusses the legal issues and social implications of the clash between First Amendment rights and community standards in the public schools

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9780253179333 | Indiana Univ Pr, May 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Discusses the legal issues and social implications of the clash between First Amendment rights and community standards in the public schools

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Probes attempts by parents and citizen groups to regulate and censor books used in public schools since the 1974 censorship incident in Kanawha County, West Virginia, exploring how these efforts encroach upon the rights of students and teachers

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9780809309290 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Probes attempts by parents and citizen groups to regulate and censor books used in public schools since the 1974 censorship incident in Kanawha County, West Virginia, exploring how these efforts encroach upon the rights of students and teachers

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