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Her book The Language Police ( 2003 ) was a criticism of both left-wing and right-wing attempts to stifle the study and expression of views deemed unworthy by those groups.

The Amazon. com review summarizes Ravitch's thesis as " 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.

" Publishers Weekly wrote: " Ravitch contends that these sanitized materials sacrifice literary quality and historical accuracy in order to escape controversy.