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Peer reviewedStein, Marcy; Stuen, Carol; Carnine, Douglas; Long, Roger M. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Encourages educators to carefully examine the textbook adoption process, especially the way in which adoption committees evaluate and select instructional materials. Reviews the available research literature on the textbook adoption process and includes recommendations for improving the process. Discusses guidelines for designing evaluation…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Material Evaluation, Textbook Selection
Peer reviewedReynolds, John C. – Education, 1979
The article examines the historical/contemporary impact of textbooks on the curriculum and the relationship between controversy and textbooks. Specifically, current science and humanities textbooks have become involved in certain controversial issues. (Author/NQ)
Descriptors: Censorship, Curriculum Development, Humanities Instruction, Science Instruction
Peer reviewedLehr, Fran – Reading Teacher, 1979
Suggests sources which can guide schools in evaluating textbooks. (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Textbook Bias, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Download full textTierney, Robert J.; And Others – 1980
This paper suggests that teachers concentrate on the ideational and structural properties of text rather than on information acquired from readability formulas when selecting and using texts. Emphasis is given to the importance of context in the analysis of text, and a framework is suggested for examining the text considering the functions texts…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Prose, Readability
Zavalo, Lauro – 1997
This paper explains that materials on the teaching of Latin-American literature are sparse, even though most researchers in the field will dedicate much of their time to teaching. The paper adds that, in scholarly journals, little attention is given to teaching literature, and the topic is also absent from most academic congresses. The paper then…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Fiction, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This statement, prepared by the National Council of Teachers of English, addresses the increasing problem of censorship in the public schools in the form of pressure to restrict or deny students access to certain books or periodicals deemed objectionable by individuals or groups on moral, political, religious, ethnic, racial, or philosophical…
Descriptors: Censorship, Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Educational Products Information Exchange Inst., Stony Brook, NY. – 1983
A guide for teachers selecting reading textbooks, this report brings together information about basal programs on the market and clarification of important issues in reading instruction. A general analysis of 20 basal programs includes a prose explication and a table comparing contents (skills), reading selections, methodology, assessment tests,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
