Describes the work of Mel and Norma Gabler and their campaign against what they have determined are "improper" textbooks. (IRT)

Provides a brief description of the current state of book censorship in Warsaw, Indiana, and of some of the community response to the censorship. (IRT)

Gives a list of guidelines for reading specialists to use in evaluating content area textbooks. (MKM)

The authors teach upper-level science courses in cell biology, genetics, and biochemistry at a public, four-year "community university" that serves a demographically diverse population of traditional and nontraditional students. In this article, they describe some of the issues they have found to be particularly significant at their "community…

The items listed and annotated in this bibliography on intellectual freedom are limited to materials published between 1966 and 1971 in both books and periodicals. As used in this bibliography, intellectual freedom refers to the free access to and acquisition of all materials in whatever subject area and form, and the distribution of those…

Reviews undergraduate public finance textbooks for content, difficulty, and ideology. Includes tables summarizing the percentage space devoted to specific topics in 13 popular textbooks. Offers suggestions for supplementary materials. (Author/DH)

In 1986, the California State Board of Education rejected all 14 kindergarten-eighth grade mathematics textbook series submitted for adoption. Implications of this action are discussed. (CB)

A publisher lists guidelines on how to evaluate a textbook for a lab-oriented course. (HD)

A survey of trainers of school psychologists was conducted to determine which texts in each of 16 areas of psychology they felt to be most relevant to the training of school psychologists. A 69-item bibliography of ranked choices in each area was presented. Possible trends were discussed. (Author)

As an introduction to subsequent articles about psychology textbooks, som publishing and textbook adoption problems are mentioned. (ND)

The DeFrancis Chinese texts and texts from the People's Republic of China are compared, regarding instructional value, character use and cost. (CHK)

Some points to consider in selecting textbooks for students at different ability levels and for different types of British secondary schools are briefly discussed. (DT)

Describes the author's success in using a soft sell" approach to stimulate reluctant high school students' interest in reading. (JB)

Closet drama illustrating how the desire for mass commercial acceptability may cause a stimulating and informative textbook to end up in an editor's wastebasket. (DE)