Muddle by Mandate: A Fictionalized Account.

Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet

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ERIC Number: EJ375726

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1988

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Muddle by Mandate: A Fictionalized Account.

Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet

American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, v12 n2 p21-22,40-43 Sum 1988

Presents a fictionalized account illustrating the process by which willful states, misguided experts, cunning marketeers, and overworked teachers and administrators produce textbooks that are ill-written, confusing, misleading, and boring. (BJV)

Descriptors: Educational Policy, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation, Material Development, Problems, Textbook Content, Textbook Preparation, Textbook Publication, Textbook Selection, Textbook Standards, Textbooks

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Creative Works; Reports - General

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Language: English

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