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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 expose 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.

Richard R. Spencer received the B.S.E.E. degree from San Jose State University in 1978 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis, since 1986, where he is currently the Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies and the Child Family Professor of Engineering. His research focuses on analog and mixed-signal circuits for signal processing and digital communication. He is an active consultant to the IC design industry. Professor Spencer is a senior member of the IEEE. He has won the UCD-IEEE Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award three times. He served on the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference program committee for nine years, has been a guest editor of the "IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits" and has been an organizer and session chair for various IEEE conferences and workshops. Mohammed S. Ghausi is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering, University of California, Davis. His research interests are in electronics circuits and systems, network theory, and active filters. He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, the IEEE Centennial Medal, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's 1991 Education Award.

California State Board of Education - The California State Board of Education is the governing and policy-making body of the California Department of Education. The State Board of Education sets K-12 education policy in the areas of standards, instructional materials, assessment, and accountability.

New York State Department of Education - The New York State Education Department is the state education department in New York State. It is responsible for the supervision for all public schools in New York State, all standardized testing, as well as the production and administering all state tests and Regents Examinations.

Hawaii State Department of Education - The Hawai'i State Department of Education is the most centralized and only statewide public education system in the United States. Established by Kamehameha III on October 15, 1840, it is the oldest school system west of the Mississippi River and only system established by a sovereign monarch.

California State University - The California State University (CSU) is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California. (The others are the University of California and the California Community College System).

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