Peter Gray explains how his Year 12 students came to research and write a resource on the history of Zambia, for history teachers "in" Zambia. The construction of the resource stretched the Year 12 students in new ways: the Internet was useless and there were no easy digests in A-Level textbooks to get them started. They would have to…

Discusses the potential of NCTE for "influencing the direction of teacher education and the curriculum, for "making an ally of the textbook publisher, and for assisting children in acquiring a sense of personal identity; an address delivered at the NCTE annual convention (59th, Washington,D.C., November 27, 1969); article also appears, as…

Discusses the potential of NCTE for "influencing the direction of teacher education and the curriculum, for "making an ally of the textbook publisher, and for assisting children in acquiring a sense of personal identity; an address delivered at the NCTE annual convention (Washington, D. C., November 27, 1969). (Author/RD)

The aim of this article is to map out the priority directions and shape the program for the development of the textbook. The tasks of adjusting the aims of education, renovating the priority directions in the selection of the content of areas of education and school subjects, and improving the tools and means, methods, and organizational forms of…

Suggestions for improving undergraduate language texts focus on four areas of concern. The author recommends that: (1) texts carefully delimit and objectively specify their scope, (2) writing be personalized, (3) materials be contextually exciting and challenging, and (4) objectives be "goal-oriented." (RL)