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Naser, Shereen C.; Fuller, Kimberly Anne; Clonan-Roy, Katherine; Goncy, Elizabeth A.; Hall, Audrey; DeBoard, Alec; Williams, Alyssa – Contemporary School Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this study is to describe how school-based sexuality education (SBSE) in the context of health education frames and teaches sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Understanding how schools address sexuality and gender provides insight into how school systems might ostracize sexual and gender diverse (SGD) youth. This…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Health Education, Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
Ashley Berner; Anika Prather; José A. Gregory; Charles Kamasaki; Viviana López Green – UnidosUS, 2023
In fall 2022, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy (the Institute) and UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights organization in the country, designed a project to better understand the representation of Latinos in U.S. History textbooks for high school. Recent years have brought increased awareness that students learn best when they…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Textbook Content, Textbooks, Hispanic American Culture
Beerwinkle, Andrea L.; Owens, Julie; Hudson, Alida – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
This study examined the comprehension skills and strategies presented in current reading textbooks used within the United States as a means of describing a contributor to the ecological component of reading. The ways in which comprehension skills and strategies are distributed across genres as well as connected to the National Reading Panel…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Khan, Özlem; Tas, Tunay – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2020
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) seeks mutually comprehensible social interaction in spoken discourse. To serve this purpose, coursebooks undoubtedly play a key role as to how speaking practice takes place. In Turkey, local coursebooks are prescribed by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE); however, many practitioners seem to opt for the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
To, Vinh – SAGE Open, 2018
Adopting systemic functional linguistics (hereafter SFL) as the main theoretical framework, this study as part of a larger research project, aimed to examine how the language of textbooks deployed in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Vietnamese context shifted across levels in a book series. In order to do this, this research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Journal of Education, 2015
Over the past 50 years, substantial changes have occurred in the texts used for beginning reading instruction. This article analyzes four perspectives that have most influenced these texts in the United States over this period and the changes in these texts in relation to those in the nation's demographics and young children's literacy-related…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Textbook Content, Educational History
Griggs, Richard A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
To determine how topical coverage in introductory textbooks may have changed from the 1980s to the present, the author examined topic coverage in full-length and brief introductory textbooks from this time period. Because 98% of the teachers use textbooks for the introductory course and the majority do not assign reading beyond the textbook, the…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Textbook Content, Course Descriptions, Course Content
Jones, Dustin; Hollas, Victoria; Klespis, Mark – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2017
This article presents an overview of the ways technology is presented in textbooks written for mathematics content courses for prospective elementary teachers. Six popular textbooks comprising a total of more than 5,000 pages were examined, and 1,055 distinct references to technology were identified. These references are coded according to…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Textbook Content, Mathematics Education, Preservice Teachers
Watt, Michael G. – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this article was to review published research literature about procedures used to select textbooks in the USA. The contents of books, collected works, reports and journal articles were analysed, and summaries of the contents were then organised chronologically to present a commentary on the topic. The results showed that procedures…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Selection, Journal Articles, Literature Reviews

Reynolds, John C. – Education, 1979
The article examines the historical/contemporary impact of textbooks on the curriculum and the relationship between controversy and textbooks. Specifically, current science and humanities textbooks have become involved in certain controversial issues. (Author/NQ)
Descriptors: Censorship, Curriculum Development, Humanities Instruction, Science Instruction

Mertens, Thomas R.; Polk, Nannett C. – American Biology Teacher, 1980
Reports a review of 13 genetics textbooks published from 1975 to 1979. Six tables present summaries of the significant data about the books, specific topics covered in the texts, and the number of pages devoted to each of 15 general topics in each textbook evaluated. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Genetics, Higher Education, Science Education

Lehr, Fran – Reading Teacher, 1979
Suggests sources which can guide schools in evaluating textbooks. (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Textbook Bias, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Ariew, Robert – 1982
The lack of cultural content, low interest level, and crowdedness of second language textbooks arise because every textbook represents a compromise: between the publisher's need to sell a book and the author's need to address specific pedagogical issues, and between the need to explain grammatical points fully and the need to explain them briefly.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Developed Materials, Textbook Content

Reynolds, John C. – Education, 1981
The textbooks of a nation are generally a reflection of the values, goals, and essential priorities of that particular society. Therefore, teachers, parents, administrators, school boards, and publishers must ensure that the best thinking of various groups and of textbook critics is incorporated in the development of more effective textbooks.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Nationalism, Parent Attitudes

Jenkinson, Edward B. – Educational Horizons, 1992
Charts the battles over public school textbooks and the current targets of textbook protests, particularly secular humanism, new age thinking, and globalism. (SK)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Humanism, Public Education
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