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Whipple, Gerrtude – Music Educ J, 1969
Condensed from "The Reading Teacher, Volume 22 (December 1968), 211-15.
Descriptors: Books, Federal Aid, Reading Materials, Textbook Content
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – 1988
Many feel that textbooks dominate what students learn. They set the curriculum and often the facts learned in most subjects. For many students, textbooks are their first and sometimes only early exposure to books and to reading. The public regards textbooks as authoritative, accurate and necessary and many teachers rely on them to organize lessons…
Descriptors: Books, Curriculum, Elementary Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textFulmer, Lemos L.; McNamara, Robert C., Jr. – 1967
Although printed instructional material is the most basic tool for classroom instruction, in the school year 1966-67 a national survey showed per pupil expenditure for textbooks to be only $4.96. Lack of guidelines for expenditures on textbooks, failure to use sound budgetary practices, inadequate teacher involvement in decisions affecting texts,…
Descriptors: Books, Budgeting, Communications, Educational Administration
