Reports on an analysis of prices and amounts of advertising in magazines showing that price per page is not related to amount of advertising. (FL)

Concludes that while news about the Third World is not underemphasized in the "New York Times" and the "Chicago Tribune," negative news is played up more in both than is news from other areas. (FL)

Analyzes the coverage given to two major science-related stories by three leading weekly newsmagazines. Concludes that of the three, "Time" provided the most comprehensive coverage. (FL)

Reviews recent works of E.O. Wilson on sociobiology (the evolutionary and comparative study of social animals, including humans). Topics discussed include the nature of sociobiology, explanatory hypotheses in sociobiology, subdisciplines, biological individualism and altruism, costs of social engineering, and evolutionary perspectives. (DB)

The cloze procedure has been used by educators for over 25 years to measure readability of materials and reading comprehension. Yet, the technique is not mentioned in educational measurement textbooks. Some possible reasons for this situation are examined. (Author/RL)

Reports that during the week of the 1979 crisis at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, the "New York Post" gave less factual information than "The New York Times" in both its main headlines and subheadlines; also notes that the information the "Post" did give was more sensationalized. (GT)

Reports that editors and readers could agree on "worst" newspapers, but concludes that editors may not share reader criteria concerning what constitutes the "best" journalistic product. (RL)

It is posited that varying uses of the words "values" and "ethics" signify important clashes of opinion about the proper subject matter, scope, and goals of teaching about normative prescriptive judgements and theories. (MJB)

This study examined 41 Hindi or English language instruction textbooks widely used in Indian high school/higher secondary or preuniversity instruction. Frequency of male and female characters, their images, and their occupations were tabulated. Results indicate that Indian textbooks still present a stereotyped view of dominant males and…

Reviews the reading sections of the Metropolitan Achievement Tests and offers recommendations for their use. (FL)

Analyzes children's toys and their use as communicators of racial stereotypes. Emphasizes characterizations of Black American males in play artifacts from the years following the Civil War through the Depression years. Concludes that racial games and toys have functioned as disseminators of racially biased images. (Author/MK)

A study of daily newspapers in 19 major cities indicates that Black government officials get slightly more news coverage but that that coverage is slightly less favorable than coverage of White officials. (Author/FL)

Reports that television news coverage of a gubernatorial campaign was relatively light in part because television newspersons were skeptical of the news value of many campaign events. (FL)

Over 95 percent of 24 of the most widely used teacher education textbooks devote less than one percent of book space to the issue of sexism. (Author/IRT)

Discusses how magazines differ in the types of information they provide and the characteristics of the audience they reach. (JMF)