Reviews and describes Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ) Literature Series. Discusses the contributors to these anthologies, the content, and a teaching apparatus. Concludes that HBJ has made few changes in their books over the years and has paid only the most cursory attention to how schools, teachers, pedagogy, literature, and culture has changed.…

Asserts that drama is one of the most popular genres among adolescent students. States that it mobilizes their energies, exercises their imaginations, and rewards them for social interaction. Reviews four anthologies of plays for classroom reading in secondary school. (PRA)

Presents classroom teachers' recommendations for a variety of poetry anthologies, as well as one teacher's suggestions on making one's own anthology. (ARH)

Reviews 24 children's books and divides them into 3 groups: picture books, story collections, and chapter books. (MG)

Presents reviews of 22 poetry anthologies, collections of poems by 1 poet, and books that contain a single illustrated poem. Urges students and teachers to bring poetry alive by reading it aloud. (RS)

This paper describes the selection process of 17 articles for inclusion in the book, "Classic Writings on Instructional Technology." The book brings together original "classic" educational technology articles into one volume to document the history of the field through its literature. It is also an attempt to make available…

Reviews "The Elements of Literature," a high school literature anthology series. Concludes that the series is particularly strong in grades 9 and 10 although the selections for grades 11 and 12 are conservative. Recommends not purchasing the entire series with all its ancillary materials. (RS)

Reviews "An Odyssey in Learning and Perception" (E. J. Gibson), a volume of collected works that present a first-hand account of many advances in psychology over the past 60 years. A discussion of the two basic questions that capture the essence of Gibson's research, "What is learned" and "What is information" is…

Reviews two collections of works on teacher education in various countries. The first, which examines inequality and racism in teacher education and attempts at multicultural reform, displays varied methods and quality and provides no comparative framework. The second presents eight case studies addressing common issues in teacher education reform…

This book is a family guide to classic novels, historical fiction, fables and fairy tales, contemporary fiction, myths and legends, science fiction and fantasy, folktales, sacred texts, picture books, biographies, books for holiday/holy days, and many other books that celebrate virtues and values. Included are more than 300 titles, each featuring…

Reviews six works by Connie Miller, Comp., and Corinna Treitel (1991); Margrit Eichler (1987); Carol A. B. Warren (1988); Beth Hartung, Ed., and others (1988); Joyce McCarl Nielsen, Ed. (1990); and Liz Stanley, Ed. (1990). Works span diversity of current writing about feminist methodologies, offer guidelines for producing nonsexist or feminist…