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Direct linkJulia Kaufman; Sy Doan – State Education Standard, 2024
High-quality K-12 instructional materials can meaningfully improve teaching practice and student achievement, especially when paired with professional learning support. Yet state policymakers have usually left ultimate authority for textbook selection to school district leaders. Consequently, the quality of materials across U.S. classrooms and…
Descriptors: Textbook Selection, State Government, Government Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Reid, Pat; Maybee, Clarence – College Teaching, 2022
Selecting course reading materials is not necessarily an easy process. This article discusses selection concerns such as cost, inclusivity and options ranging from traditional textbooks to course packs. A review of literature finds extensive information about adoption of OER materials. Additionally, articles referring to difficulties in course…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Selection, Instructional Materials, Costs
Ciecierski, Lisa M.; Bintz, William P. – Reading Teacher, 2018
This article presents the concept of tri-texts as a potential next step from paired texts following a collaborative inquiry with fifth-grade students. Paired texts are two texts intertextually connected, whereas tri-texts are three texts connected this way. The authors begin the article with a short literature review highlighting some of the…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Grade 5, Teaching Methods, Text Structure
Walker, Sharryn Larsen; Walker, Natalie M. – Reading Teacher, 2018
Finding culturally relevant informational books for a classroom library can be difficult. However, expanding the definition of informational text to include procedural forms, specifically cookbooks, can enhance the cultural relevance, range, and number of books available for students to read. Reasons for placing cookbooks in the classroom library…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Textbooks, Culturally Relevant Education, Nonfiction
Neumann, Dave – History Teacher, 2019
Educators often wonder exactly how the textbooks that end up in students' hands were approved. In this article, the author explores one significant stage in the process in California, the nation's largest textbook market. The Instructional Quality Commission (IQC), an advisory board to the California Department of Education's (CDE) State Board of…
Descriptors: Textbook Selection, Educational Quality, Advisory Committees, Kindergarten
Neofytou, Chrystalla; Hadzilacos, Thanasis – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2018
Viewing its use in language teaching mainly as a text corpus, this article examines the problem of the assessment of suitability of this material for use in the Greek language course in Cyprus schooling. The suitability of texts for use in language teaching is defined by four parameters, which are described in detail in this article: text…
Descriptors: Greek, Usability, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries
