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Apple, Michael W.; Oliver, Anita – Teachers College Record, 1996
Shows how encounters with unresponsive local school districts can lead parents to affiliate with conservative movements, describing cultural assumptions and fears underpinning the cultural and religious right, examining a textbook controversy that led to the formation of rightist sentiments, and discussing attempts at countering the growth of…
Descriptors: Censorship, Conservatism, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes