Title: If only....
Product review: Having worked in educational publishing, I looked forward to what I expected to be a probing look at how various pressure groups affect textbooks and curriculum. Instead I read a poorly researched report that does not really ask the hard questions about its subject.If this was supposed to be a tabloid expose, I am surprised Ravitch could not find more extreme cases. If she wanted a more serious look at how pressure groups affect education, she failed there as a well by speaking anecdotally and ignoring larger trends.At times, Ravitch lets her own political bias influence what she reports, giving much space to "left-wing" pressures on history textbooks, while ignoring the even stronger "right-wing" pressure.If you want a superficial examination of serious problems, then this is the book for you.It is not for me.
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