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)

Analyzes the visual content of the televised presidential debates between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford and determines the differences in how each candidate was portrayed by the television medium. (JMF)

Reports that law enforcement news coverage on television network evening news programs is a network preoccupation, that the coverage overemphasizes events in four major cities, that law enforcement agents and institutions are portrayed unfavorably, and that the coverage reflects a desire to entertain rather than a sense of social responsibility.…

Compares the 1960 and 1976 presidential debates as part of the political campaign and concludes that the differences between the two in terms of format and content are minor. (JMF)

Describes the results of a systematic survey of ten years' issues of "Research in the Teaching of English" and suggests areas of research which still need to be explored. (DD)

An analysis of the coverage by four United States daily newspapers of the collapse of Nationalist China to the Communists in the 1940s reveals that, for all four newspapers, news out of and about China was just important enough to warrant some commentary, but not sustained analysis. (GT)

Investigates positive and negative perspectives of self-disparaging humor. (MH)