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Educational Leadership, 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: Conflicts over schools in general and curriculum and materials in particular have increased in recent years. A contributing factor is that organized groups, determined to reform society by imposing their values on others, insist that textbooks and other educational materials reflect their views.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Community Role, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
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Faigley, Lester I. – English Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Censorship, Demonstrations (Civil), Moral Issues, Moral Values
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Kaufman, Paul J. – Appalachian Journal, 1975
The 1974 textbook dispute led by Alice Moore, member of the Kanawha County (West Virginia) Board of Education, is discussed. (NQ)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Books, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ragusa, Olga – Italica, 1974
A brief analysis is made of the teaching of Italian literature in the United States with special reference to course work and language proficiency in the doctoral program. Mention is made of the choice of texts in undergraduate language courses. (Text is in Italian.) (AM)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Programs, Higher Education
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Leamer, Laurence E. – Journal of Economic Education, 1974
This annotated bibliography provides an examination and description of all recent introductory principles texts to help instructors decide which texts to obtain for consideration in their own courses. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Economics, Economics Education, Guides
Foundation for Teaching Economics, San Francisco, CA. – 1989
Produced as a part of an evaluatic research study, this volume includes descriptions and critiques of 14 sets of economic education reviews print materials for teaching economics to grades 7-10 that were prepared by economists and middle school teachers. The materials for evaluation were selected by searching the Education Resources Information…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Economics Education, Instructional Materials, Secondary Education
Bray, Judith L.; Armstrong, Jane – 1986
In the fall of 1984, the Education Commission of the States (ECS) was awarded a grant from the U.S. Secretary of Education's Discretionary Fund to identify alternative state roles for improving instructional materials in mathematics. To help state leaders define an appropriate and effective role in upgrading these materials, ECS proposed first to…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Mathematics Education, Surveys, Teaching Methods
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1984
California state-adopted commercial art and music instructional materials are described to aid state school districts in matching instructional materials with curriculum goals and objectives. Information is provided in three sections. An annotated index gives pertinent information about each program, including title, year of copyright, and grade…
Descriptors: Art Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Music Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1984
The California State Board of Education is responsible for adopting textbooks and instructional materials for use in kindergarten through grade eight. The purposes of the instructional materials program are to: (1) establish clear standards for the educational and social content of texbooks and instructional materials; (2) evaluate instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Instructional Materials, State Standards
Last, Ellen – 1982
Because the state of Texas is the largest single market for secondary texts in the nation and because its state adoption process has drawn a small but well-organized group of protestors, the Texas textbook adoption process has begun to shape textbooks in use nationwide. A study was conducted to examine the arguments most recently used by citizens…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Dissent, Literature Appreciation, State Standards
Elliott, John D. – 1988
Instructional materials are usually selected by classroom teachers. Little is known about what criteria they use in making these choices. Most of the literature recommends, instead, the attributes to be used. This study employs a qualitative approach to examine one teacher's thinking about her selection of materials. Fundamental to her thinking…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Education
Lundin, Janet, Ed.; And Others – 1987
This publication is intended to serve as a resource for teachers who are responsible for selecting textbooks for general mathematics courses in high school. Contained are 18 factual textbook reviews. (The reviews do not contain assessments about the quality of the books). Each review includes four parts. Part 1 contains information furnished by…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction
Kossack, Sharon Wall; Vigilante, Nicholas – 1981
Most teachers of mathematics would agree that a student's major difficulty when studying mathematics is the mastery of "vocabulary." A taxonomy could provide an outline of the various types of vocabulary and could suggest their relative interrelationships. One proposed taxonomy has five levels that seem to recur. The levels seem to have…
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Carini, Patricia F. – Urban Review, 1974
Theme speech delivered before the Cortland, New York, College Conference, May, 1973. (RJ)
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Culture, Curriculum Development
Reutter, E. Edmund, Jr. – 1977
This speech calls attention to some recent judicial developments relative to the public school curriculum (curriculum being defined to encompass all experiences provided for public school students under the aegis of public school authorities). Curricular elements, be they whole courses or single words, may be analyzed legally in terms of whether…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Censorship, Court Litigation, Curriculum
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