Background: Undergirding the dominant research focus on gender representation in textbooks is the assumption that making texts progressive in their construction of gender is a panacea for equality in the classroom. As this study demonstrates, however, textbooks containing traditional representations of gender can be used to challenge biases, while…

To advance ongoing efforts to diversify the healthcare field and promote inclusion in physiology education, the present study investigates the potential for an evidence-based intervention, Scientist Spotlight assignments, to highlight counterstereotypical representations of scientists in the context of majors and nonmajors physiology courses.…

Textbook Adoption: The process, in place in twenty-one states, of reviewing textbooks according to state guidelines and then mandating specific books that schools must use, or lists of approved textbooks that schools must choose from. It consistently produces second-rate textbooks that replicate the same flaws and failings over and over again.…

Article seeks to alert educators to the problems resulting from the use of textbooks that are unsatisfactory, and indeed harmful, to members of both majority and minority groups. (Author/GB)

Discussion prepared by Detroit Public Schools Staff of social and educational inadequacies found in texts as well as a description of the method of study and its impact. A series of textbook evaluations is included. (NI)

Discussion of the current status of minority group treatment in textbooks, and a plea for more reliable textbook evaluation. Annotated reference list is included. (NI)

Surveys eleven currently available undergraduate textbooks on industrial organization. Concludes that some texts have an economics emphasis and others a policy emphasis. Rates the content of each text according to established criteria. (JDH)

While conclusive evidence of improvement of current elementary social studies textbooks does not exist at this moment, there is evidence of reform in the content, if not the readability of texts, used by disadvantaged students. (DM)

Recent civil rights reforms have pointed up the need for more changes in textbooks' references to minority groups. (IR)

"Fair Textbooks: A Resource Guide," compiled by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, lists resources, bibliographies, and directories to aid teachers in choosing bias free textbooks. (CJ)

Suggests sources which can guide schools in evaluating textbooks. (MKM)

Recounts an instance in which Virginia politicians took over the writing and adoption of state history books. (IRT)

Negro stereotyping is still very common in textbooks.

Two books are reviewed which discuss conservative critics of textbooks, especially critics of the presentation of evolution in biology textbooks. The article tells who these textbook watchers are and describes their aversions and preferences. (BB)

Discusses factors that psychology professors should consider when selecting a textbook for introductory courses. These include readability, human interest level, comprehensiveness, and authoritative accuracy of the material. (RM)