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Anjali Adukia; Emileigh Harrison – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools, applying computational methods -- including the use of…
Descriptors: State Church Separation, Public Schools, Private Schools, Curriculum Evaluation
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Sheehan, Kathleen M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
The "TextEvaluator"® text analysis tool is a fully automated text complexity evaluation tool designed to help teachers, curriculum specialists, textbook publishers, and test developers select texts that are consistent with the text complexity guidelines specified in the Common Core State Standards.This paper documents the procedure used…
Descriptors: Scores, Common Core State Standards, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics
Brunelle, Robert L.; And Others – 1983
Described in these four contributions to a discussion group are options open to publishers and purchasers to improve textbooks and textbook selection. The first contribution (by Robert L. Brunelle) briefly introduces the discussion and stresses the urgency of creating higher standards for textbooks as part of overall educational reforms. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education