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Peer reviewedAde-Ridder, Linda – Family Relations, 1989
Discusses issues involved in the selection of textbooks for family life education: diversity of marriage and family course offerings; difficulties in locating appropriate materials; and criteria for text selection. Reviews 14 university texts published in 1987 and 1988. Calls for texts which cover aspects of marriage and family with greater depth.…
Descriptors: College Students, Family Life, Family Life Education, Higher Education
Lauber, Gerald; Sirois, Herman A. – Journal of the New York State School Boards Association, 1986
Presents procedures for improving school district textbook adoption practices to create a better match between student and texts. Emphasizes the importance of overcoming both the traditional reliance on publishers for textbook adoption rationales, and the frequent aversion of educators toward using technologies such as student textbook readability…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Educational Testing, Reading Material Selection, Research Utilization
McAfee, Donald C. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1979
A team of faculty members and graduate students identified major concepts and developed validated test questions for two widely used textbooks in personal hygiene classes in order to standardize norms for classes and supplement inadequate instructor's manuals. (JMF)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Content, Evaluation, Health Education
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
Presents a fictionalized account illustrating the process by which willful states, misguided experts, cunning marketeers, and overworked teachers and administrators produce textbooks that are ill-written, confusing, misleading, and boring. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation, Material Development
Hensley, Robin – 1989
A first-year first grade teacher's professional disappointments were broken down into three divisions: (1) power and control, or the lack of them; (2) co-worker socialization; and (3) lack of professionalism and support. Lack of control was reflected in pressure from administrators to use certain texts, or even to decorate classrooms in a certain…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Grade 1
Henderson, Ilona – 1978
Students are exposed to a curriculum that primes both males and females for a sexist society. Picture books are the first reading materials to which young children are exposed. An analysis of award winning children's books reveals negative associations about being female. Sex role stereotyping is already operative at the prereading and early…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textEducation Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1987
This working paper is a compilation of articles prepared for the Policy and the Higher Literacies Project. The two-year project examines key leverage points in state and local education policy levels and how they may promote or constrict the acquisition of higher levels of literacy for a much broader range of American students. Research strongly…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
