The report opens with detailed summaries of historical background information for each of the groups involved and with a review of the literature on bias in textbooks in Canada, the United States, and other countries. Over a time span of six months, 211 readers evaluated 1,719 textbooks. Readers located 104 biases in 78 textbooks. The 23 biases…

Presents the annecdotal results of an analysis of 11 major publishers' high school world history textbooks. Provides criteria for evaluating such books and concludes that, as a group, these textbooks promoted Western ethnocentrism. (JDH)

Examines the social pressures that are brought to bear on textbook publishers and that influence them to serve as their own censors in the selection of material. (JOW)

It is reasonable to be concerned about ideological bias in economics textbooks because of political pressures in the United States to present a positive evaluation of free enterprise. However, an examination of texts does not show the bias that Bruce Romanish claims to have found. (IS)

Twenty-six elementary and secondary texts dealing with the Middle East are analyzed for objectivity and accuracy. Results indicate a need for area specialists' participation in textbook writing. Analysis is based upon data gathered by the Committee on Middle East Image in Secondary Schools, Middle East Studies Association. (JH)

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)

History, not being amenable to scientific method, requires subjective interpretation by the teacher. (DB)

Canadians and female children are dealt short shrift by the educational publications industry. (ML)

The author discusses, with many examples, how school books teach sexual stereotypes. (MM)

Describes a study which analyzed 10 current and widely used secondary U.S. history textbooks for their coverage of the Vietnam War to determine their accuracy, completeness, and objectivity. Most of the textbooks studied offered a too sketchy account of the Vietnam War. Certain key topics are often neglected. (RM)

The content of seventeen widely used secondary school United States history textbooks was examined, focusing on economic and labor history from the Civil War to World War I. It was found that the content reflects the ideology of particular groups in society and excludes that of others. (CT)

This review article looks at the contents of a sample of science textbooks, not for their scientific contents as such, but for their hidden contents, in particular pointing out cases of hidden sexism. (Author/KC)

Twenty-one college textbooks and 16 readers in the sociology of the family and marriage and the family were examined for their treatment of adoption. A content analysis showed that little attention was devoted to adoption and that the coverage provided was predominantly negative, stressing the potential problems of adoption about twice as often as…