 | The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.00 Here is the book itself, a must-read for anyone who cares about the state of education and literature today.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.84 "Orwell's futuristic novel about a totalitarian regime rings true today."
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 | The Oregon Trail (Dover Value Editions) by Francis Parkman
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.12 "An eyewitness account of America's westward movement, Parkman's vivid account stands as a work of literature as well as a historical and geographical record."
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 | Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.52 America's founding fathers studied the works of Plutarch, an important Greek biographer. Selections are advisable at a high school level, as opposed to the full works.
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 | Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings by Roy Basler
Buy new: $27.30 / Used from: $14.69 |
 | George Washington, a Collection by WB ALLEN
Buy new: $14.50 / Used from: $4.21 |
 | The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Portable Library) by Thomas Jefferson
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.08 Presidential writings.
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 | Guys and Dolls and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Damon Runyon
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $8.50 Stories by Damon Runyon.
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 | Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.37 |
 | King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.56 |
 | Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.88 |
 | Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.99 |
 | The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.30 |
 | Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.04 |
 | Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.15 Frequent reading of Shakespeare's plays should continue throughout high school.
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 | Pygmalion (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.01 A witty comedy by a classic playwright.
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 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.96 A girl growing up in Brooklyn in 1912 and discovering the melting pot of America.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $2.98 "This is the famous story of the Dust Bowl era and the Joad family's journey from the choking, sand-swept air of Oklahoma to the orchards of California."
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 | THE RED PONY by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: $0.38 More Steinbeck. A poignant novella.
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 | The Complete Plays of John M. Synge by John M. Synge
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.70 "Riders to the Sea" is a one-act tragedy set in an island fishing village.
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 | The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 A dazzling mystery novel.
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 | Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $1.98 An "expansive Victorian novel" containing shrewd observations on society.
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 | Walden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.66 A book containing absolutely essential observations on life and the nature of man.
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 | My Life and Hard Times (Perennial Classics) by James Thurber
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $2.24 "Thurber's ability to meld the mundane and the cuckoo makes his brand of humor distinctive."
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 | Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $4.85 Selections from this will help students understand democracy.
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 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $2.70 A--excuse me, "the"--American classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will never die. No matter how many times people try to ban it, ignoring the fact that Twain was a devoted anti-racist in his time, the American spirit will live on. Keep rowing, Huck and Jim!
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 | Up from Slavery (Oxford World's Classics) by Booker T. Washington
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.12 The autobiography by an extremely influential black leader.
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 | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.56 "[Whitman's poems] have much to offer yougn readers in their reflections on valor in the voyages of life."
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.95 Once said to be Earnest Hemingway's favorite book (just kidding!)... An observational satire by Oscar Wilde.
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 | Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America) by Thornton Wilder
Buy used from: $20.98 An important American artist.
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 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel by Thornton Wilder
Buy new: $14.39 / Used from: $10.83 |
 | The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $4.91 "[Yeats'] plays and poems reveal his fascination with lore and the occult." Selections.
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 | The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
Buy used from: $0.01 CLOSING COMMENTS: It is a sad day we live in, that censorship is so prevalent that genuine classics are discarded in favor of modern books with almost no life to them (since by passing the sensitivity tests from both the left and the right there is almost nothing left of interest in them.
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 | The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
Buy new: $22.95 My own experience is that I have read mostly feminist books in high school. Think for yourself and rediscover the classics. Thank you, Diane Ravitch, for your wonderful, eye-opening book.
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