Battle of the Books: The Curriculum Debate in America

ISBN-10: 0393310701
ISBN-13: 9780393310702
Category: Books and reading
Pages: 164
Language: English
Published: 1993
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Author: James Atlas

Description

Does it matter which books college students read? Indeed it does, contends the author. Atlas presents a trenchant assessment of America at its educational crossroads, and asserts that whatr in shaping Buyer's Choice

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Battle of the Books: Literary Censorship in the Public Schools,...
- 1989
- 402 pages
- Paperback
- Scarecrow Press

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