This paper attempts to relate the needs of lecturers and students of developmental psychology in introductory courses, of teachers, parents and lay discussion groups, to recently published and widely available books. (Author/KM)

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)

Describes a pass-fail class of about 400 college freshmen in which each student chose a text to use for the course from a selection of three appropriate textbooks. (PR)

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

Annual revision of the list sent to New York City schools by the Bureau of Libraries, selected for their special importance to schools. (JS)

States that the challenge of being a responsible accounting instructor is in selecting an accounting text that effectively reflects the procedures presently being practiced by today's accountants, which will elevate students to entry-level competence. Also states that an accounting text should integrate both the "how" and the "why" of concepts.…

Alleges misinterpretation by the media of school book selection policies. Criticizes the findings of the nationwide survey on censorship sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the Association of American Publishers, and the American Library Association. Details controversies in Montgomery County, MD, Merrimack,…

Presents 30 questions about values in reading that teachers can review when deciding which stories and readers ought to be used with children. The questions are divided into five categories: characters depicted; story philosophy of values; plot development; cultural, social and physical setting; and emotional intensity. (NEC)

Sixty-one psychology textbooks were analyzed according to four criteria: student acceptance and interest, readability and human interest, comprehensiveness and size, and psychobiological content. This analytic approach can be used in all subjects to match text selection with course objectives in order to increase student satisfaction. (AM)

"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)

This article is designed to help textbook selection committees and personnel make better choices of instructional materials. It outlines the types of information selectors will need about their own districts' curriculum and characteristics and presents a chart for design analysis of this data which can be used in textbook evaluation. (SJL)

Illuminates some of the factors that control the quality of textbooks--state adoption procedures, veto groups in influential states, and constraints within the publishing industry. (IRT)

Describes the Instructional Strategy Diagnostic Profile (ISDP)--an analytic tool that facilitates the evaluation and revision of existing instruction and the design of new instruction--and recounts its use in comparing two textbooks to determine the most appropriate for an organic chemistry course. (JEG)

Compares the advantages of multitext and single text approaches to literary study and advocates the multitext approach. (DD)