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Is Minority Opinion Telling You What to Teach?

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Dawkins, John – Language Arts, 1977

Textbook makers, buyers, and users are all suffering from censorship by vocal minorities. (DD)

Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Education, Publishing Industry, Textbook Content

Social Studies Texts Are Hard to Understand: Mediating Some of the Difficulties (Research Directions).

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Beck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G. – Language Arts, 1991

Discusses the use of content area textbooks and indicates that content textbooks are difficult for students to understand because the books generally are not well written. Offers solutions for how to use content textbooks and illustrates how lessons can be created through the integration of tradebooks and through discussions in which critical…

Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension