The Language Police reviewed: “Diane Ravitch provides an impassioned examination of how right-wing and left-wing pressure groups have succeeded in sanitizing textbooks and tests.” NY Times The book arose from the author’s examination of the content guidelines of the major educational publishing companies as part of a Presidential committee on standardized testing during the Clinton Administration. She was amazed, incredulous, disheartened by the number of topics and terms that were off-limits in educational content (see examples in the article). It all comes down to the educational mega-corporations protecting their profitability. Their investment in developing a given textbook will be down the tubes if one of the larger states such as Florida or California fails to buy it because it offends somebody’s notion of political correctness. Likewise, a standardized test susceptible to challenge and possible invalidation because its content is too disturbing or noninclusive would not get bought.