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Crawford, Patricia A. – Teaching and Learning Literature with Children and Young Adults, 1997
States that the beliefs and practices associated with holistic, child-centered teaching and literature-based reading instruction are being challenged at every turn. Finds that publishers have developed basals that purport to be all things to all people. Gives the history of basal reader development. Suggests that basal systems are being used as…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Educational History, Literacy, Primary Education
Download full textHoffman, James V.; And Others – 1993
A study examined the first grade materials in five new basal programs submitted for the 1993 Texas state adoption. (The programs were those of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Houghton Mifflin; Scott Foresman; Macmillan/McGraw-Hill; and Silver Burdett Ginn). These series are compared with program materials currently in use in the state. The analysis…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Primary Education
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
