Diane Ravitch Featured Speaker at NCTE Annual Convention

Diane Ravitch will be referring to the research that she did in writing The Language Police about the censorship protocols used by publishers as they compile textbooks, as well as the low quality of much of the textbook content.
Her presentation will juxtapose the quality of the typical textbook with the genuine excitement to be found in reading novels, poems, essays, and other writings, sent in the context of their time, with understanding of their author and his or her era. She will refer, in part, to The American Reader and The English Reader, both of which are sources for authentic writings.