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Download full textSchmitt, Maribeth Cassidy; Hopkins, Carol J. – 1990
A study examined the content of eight 1989 editions of the major basal reading series--those of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; D.C. Heath and Co.; Holt Rinehart and Winston; Houghton Mifflin; Macmillan; McGraw-Hill; Scott, Foresman and Co.; and Silver Burdett and Ginn. The study determined how and the extent to which lessons and activities that…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Metacognition
Patterson, Frances R. A. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1996
Analyzes five cases related to challenges to public school textbooks. Five different U.S. Courts of Appeal have considered the objections of parents to textbooks, and all five found for the defendant school districts. Reveals that what began as a grassroots parental movement evolved into a nationwide crusade that has embroiled communities. (129…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Conservatism, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
