Social Studies Textbooks Still Neglect Racial Minorities and Women, and Short Change Children.

Zimmerman, Roger

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Publication Date: 1975

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Social Studies Textbooks Still Neglect Racial Minorities and Women, and Short Change Children

Zimmerman, Roger

Negro Educational Review, 26, 2&3, 116-123, Apr-Jul 75

Discusses and compares surveys made in 1965 and again in 1971 of the fourth, fifth and sixth grade textbooks of six publishers: the publishers chosen were those most frequently mentioned when a random sample of Minnesota school districts was asked to name the basic social studies textbook(s) being used at the time. (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Publications, Racial Discrimination, Sex Discrimination, Social Studies, Statistical Analysis, Textbook Bias, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Research

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