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Doyle, Denis P. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1984
The problem with textbooks reflects the deeper uncertainties in our culture. As a society, we have lost sight of what it is we want our children to learn. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Social Influences, Social Values, Textbook Content

Graham, Alma – Social Education, 1986
Elementary social studies textbooks in the United States are better today than they have ever been before. Changes in the educational climate, the textbook evaluation process, and the marketplace have led to vast improvements in published materials. (RM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Social Studies, Textbook Content, Textbook Publication

Early, Margaret; Searles, John R. – English Journal, 1972
New textbooks, slides, and recordings of interest to the English teacher are reviewed. (SP)
Descriptors: Audiodisc Recordings, Instructional Materials, Reading Materials, Slides
Educational Product Report Number 29, 1970
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Preparation, Textbook Research

History Teacher, 1980
Presents remarks of seven participants in a symposium which discussed Frances FitzGerald's study of history textbooks, "America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century." Participants responded to the book's indictment that most scholars do not take textbooks seriously. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, History Textbooks, Textbook Evaluation
Harty, Sheila – Today's Education, 1978
Industry-produced materials may reveal reprehensible bias. (DS)
Descriptors: Bias, Industry, Instructional Materials, Media Selection
American School Board Journal, 1979
Provides guidelines a board of education should follow before a censorship controversy arises. Also includes a brief list of organizations that can assist in the preparation of guidelines for the selection of textbooks and other curricular materials, and, in handling complaints. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Censorship, Guidelines, Textbook Selection
Reys, Barbara J.; Reys, Robert E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Mathematics textbooks are critical tools for student learning in American classrooms. Teachers use them daily to plan and deliver lessons, and students use them in class to explore and learn mathematics. Given textbooks' potential to support student learning, it is important to understand how they are developed. While pressure is growing on…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Selection
Duke, Benjamin C. – Comp Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Comparative Education, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Textbook Bias

Woodward, Arthur – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1987
Contends that if textbooks are to be improved it is essential that teachers, administrators, and textbook selectors become more demanding and discriminating consumers. Examines various textbook components that need improvement such as: (1) photographs; (2) basic skills exercises; (3) worksheets; and (4) content. (BSR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Armbruster, Bonnie B. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1984
Basal reading, science, and social studies textbooks for elementary school students are too often stilted, boring, inaccurate, and/or confusing. If the children are to enjoy learning, textbook content and quality must be improved. (GC)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Social Studies, Textbook Content

Steiner, Florence – Foreign Language Annals, 1973
Points out weaknesses characteristic of current language textbooks and suggests that future textbooks will concentrate on culture, values, and interest areas. (RL)
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Language Instruction, Modern Languages, Textbook Preparation
Stachel, Ulrich Otto – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1971
Part 1 of this article appeared in v2 n5 of Linguistik und Didaktik''. (WB)
Descriptors: Assignments, Book Reviews, Diachronic Linguistics, German

Neate, Bobbie – Reading, 1990
Surveys children's information books. Finds that the language of the books is very diverse. Suggests that readers experience diversity of language from a very early age and that such books fall well short of any standard that is desirable of informative texts. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Reading Research
Doolan, Karin; Domazet, Mladen – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
The article draws on an analysis exploring how the content and aims of secondary school political education have been framed in official Croatian policy documents following the country's war for independence, with particular focus on the underlying conception of citizenship promoted in such a post-conflict setting. The article also addresses how…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Textbook Standards, Political Socialization, Politics of Education