An overview evaluation of three commercially produced sets of individualized instructional materials for English, mathematics, and reading. (MLF)

Article relates the findings of a 1971 National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) study of a series of textbooks, which found the situation unsatisfactory. Author requests that more study be done on the subject. (JB)

This article picks up the debate on the requirements of materials criticism and provides an extensive critique of the Philosophy for Children program, contributing both a description of the program material and a basis for further discussion and exchange on the issue of materials criticism. (Author/MLF)

This essay emphasizes the impact of instructional materials on the development of the individual's self-esteem. It provides guidelines and checklists for the evaluation of sexism and racism, as well as strategies for increasing awareness in the teaching-learning process to help counteract these biases. (Author/DS)

This review of selected social studies texts, series, and supplements, mainly for the secondary level, includes a special section examining eight titles on warfare and terrorism for grades 4-12. (SJL)

Reviews three works that each examine a specific area of metahistory: (1) "World Historians and their Goals" by Paul Costello; (2) "The Structure of Big History" by Fred Spier; and (3) "The Myth of Continents" by Martin Lewis and Karen Wigen. (CMK)

The methods for authoring and distributing course content are undergoing substantial changes due to advancement in computer technology. Paper has been the traditional method to author and distribute course content. Paper enables students to personalize content through highlighting and note taking but does not enable the incorporation of multimedia…

Today as they have during the past 300 years, textbooks play the basic role in telling us who we are as a people and as a nation. (Editor)

Area study materials should be factual, contemporary, objective, and designed with regard to the student's level. Content should be limited to material contrasting with, or supplementary to, the students' knowledge. Penguin's series "Connexions" is better than available German texts. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Describes and compares five basic German texts for high school students and includes the evaluative criteria used. (CK)

The U.S. Navy conducted a study to determine the readability grade level of materials used in its technical training schools curricula as a basis for (1) establishing minimal reading competencies for those schools, (2) identifying problem textual materials used in those schools, and (3) choosing additional school curricula for readability…

Discusses the reactivity of aryl halides with nucleophilic or basic reagents, including nucleophilic attacks on carbon, hydrogen, halogen, and arynes. Suggestions are made concerning revisions of the sections on aryl halide chemistry courses and the corresponding chapters in textbooks. (CC)

This fastback deals with the problems and issues involved in selecting instructional materials and provides some principles and resource aids to help with the selection process. The recommended resource aids concentrate on elementary, secondary, early childhood, and special education teaching materials. Major emphasis is on textbooks, library…

Discusses texts in the audiovisual field, giving controversial viewpoints in methodology and pedagogy: late introduction of writing, teaching grammar, the use of pictures, significance of memorizing, etc. Second part offers for discussion a catalog of criteria which may offer assistance in the selection of suitable audiovisual courses. (Text is in…