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Peer reviewedElliott, David L.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1985
Criticizes the organization, emphases, scope, and intellectual challenges of basal social studies textbooks widely used in elementary schools. Includes recommendations for improving such textbooks and social studies curricula. (MCG)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Social Studies, Textbook Bias
Peer reviewedKilpatrick, James J. – American Sociologist, 1976
Charges that Macmillan Publishing Company's policy guidelines for textbooks ought to be denounced as a wilful exercise in intellectual dishonesty, as the company insists that its textbooks depict society, not as it is, but as the publishers would like it to be. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Formal Criticism, Guidelines, Policy Formation, Publishing Industry
Peer reviewedBaldigo, Jeanne; And Others – American Sociologist, 1976
Several responses to Kilpatricks' article on the Macmillan Publishing Company's policy guidelines governing textbook publication are provided. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Formal Criticism, Guidelines, Policy Formation, Publishing Industry
