Discusses the history and success of the United States' most popular high school journalism textbook, "Scholastic Journalism," by Earl English, Clarence Hach, and Tom Rolnicki. (SR)

Suggests that the textbook plays a role in the origin and subsequent development of a genre. Illustrates this by discussing the genre of the resume, which has risen to prominence in 20th-century professional job-search contexts. Concludes that authors of business discourse textbooks helped to stabilize the newly developed resume and disseminated…

Introduces a new series of U.S. history textbooks geared to grade five (or grades four, five, and six). The 10-volume series, divided into short, manageable chapters, aims to make history come alive. An excerpt from Book 6 ("War, Terrible War") about the Civil War is presented. (SLD)

This article traces the development of the Dick and Jane texts, examining the dominent intellectual and economic considerations of their authors and publishers in order to demystify their transmission of values, beliefs, and meanings. (MT)

This paper considers what has kept textbooks around so long. The paper reviews changes in pedagogy and values manifested in nineteenth century textbooks to better understand the role of textbooks in the classroom. It suggests that textbooks are a highly adaptable literary genre (with always changing writing styles), concluding that as classroom…

Provides a brief historical report on pedagogical efforts to improve the integration of migrants and their families into German society. Examines the way in which the migrants' social situation has been dealt with in textbooks, particularly in books on politics, history, geography, and occupational education. (PA)

This textbook provides the foundation for a geology course. A table of British fossils and more than 600 illustrations are included. Topics range from classes of rock, fossils, strata above the sea, classification of rocks to volcanic rocks, plutonic rocks, metamorphic rocks, and mineral veins.

A study examined historical changes in the content of consumer education and factors associated with these changes. Analysis was based on key writings on consumer education and an examination of fifteen high school texts published between 1938 and 1978. Only a few topics--budgeting, savings and investment, life insurance, and housing--received…

Describes and analyzes the composition textbooks, or first books of compositions, all written between 1838 and 1855, which were all markedly different from the best-known writing texts of the period. Provides a broader account of how writing was taught in the mid-nineteenth century in America. (HB)

This textbook is an illustrated geography reader. It contains 44 lessons, each followed by a list of study words. The book concludes with a "Summary of Chief Facts I Have Learned."

This manual is collection of examinations. The first part contains 150 examination papers, the questions for which have been selected mainly from the English, French, and German collections of problems. These papers may be divided into three groups. The first 50 papers are confined to the simple rules, fractions, and weights and measures; the next…

This textbook consists of specimen pages from "Harper's First," "Second," "Third," "Fourth," and "Fifth" readers. The books' main object and intent is to teach reading. The language lessons, notes, questions, etc., are placed at the end of each book, where they can be used by the teacher for…

This textbook is the third volume in a series of readers.

This textbook is the second volume in a series of readers. Word lists are included.

This textbook is a reader that seeks to stimulate the perceptive faculties of the pupil, store his mind with practical information, interest him in various arts and occupations by which hundreds of millions of persons earn their daily bread, and instill appreciation of the nobility of manual labor. In this book elocution is subordinated to…