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Direct linkWillinsky, John – Science & Education, 2020
Following on earlier examinations of biology high school textbooks' handling of race, this study examines eleven biology textbooks, intended for US high school use and published between 2014 and 2019. It offers a close reading of these textbooks' treatment of four topics that have been associated with race: genetic disorders, human origins, skin…
Descriptors: High School Students, Textbook Bias, Racial Bias, Science Education
Peer reviewedAyalon, Hanna – American Journal of Education, 1995
Examines between-school variation in gender and ethnic inequality in course-taking of physics and biology. A multilevel analysis of 19,743 Israeli twelfth graders reveals the sciences are taken less often by underprivileged Jewish ethnic group students, physics is taken more often by males and biology by females, and gender typing is particularly…
Descriptors: Biology, Course Selection (Students), Curriculum Research, Economically Disadvantaged
