In her survey of school textbook guidelines, education professor Diane Ravitch found that terms such as "early man," "snow cone" and "God" were no-nos. The demands of social conservatives and liberals, she argues, have rendered textbooks and curricula bland and meaningless. Also on the show: former CNN VP Gail Evans, and the future of abortion rights.
Hammer the Nail in the Coffin?
Josh Hammer, Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and author of A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place (Simon & Schuster, September 2003), on Hamas' ending talks of a ceasefire
Full Victory For Partial Birth Ban
Jeremy Manier and Ofelia Casillas, staff writers at the Chicago Tribune, explain the politics and science of "partial-birth abortion"
Open Phones
Listeners on gambling in sports and the lack of New York interest in Jersey teams
The Ravitches Of Time
Diane Ravitch, research professor of education at New York University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, on her book, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Knopf, 2003)
See Jane Get Promoted
Gail Evans, former executive vice president of domestic networks for the CNN Newsgroup and author of She Wins, You Win: The Most Important Rules Every Businesswoman Needs to Know (Penguin, 2003), explains the reaction to the Martha Stewart scandal and the perception of successful women
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