Responds to claims about the instructional value of the downward-sloping aggregate demand curve in teaching principles of macroeconomics. Examines the effects of interest-rates and the role of money on demand curves. Concludes by arguing against the use of downward-sloping aggregate demand curves in textbooks. (RKM)

Reports the results of a qualitative content analysis of the primary grade level books of four popular elementary social studies basal textbook series. Maintains that much of the content is redundant, superfluous, vacuous, and needlessly superficial. Recommends, among other things, eliminating textbooks prior to third grade and abandoning the…

Identifies three fallacies common to many widely used undergraduate textbooks, shows why they are wrong, and offers correct alternatives. (JDH)

Maintains that intermediate level undergraduate microeconomic theory texts mislead by their treatment of the effect of an excise tax on a monopolist's price and output. Offers a simple demonstration of the correct approach. (Author/JDH)

Examination of 13 college textbooks on education of the gifted and talented revealed a wide range of difficulty and interest levels. A wide variety of subject topics was found, with little agreement among authors concerning appropriate subject matter. Some important topics, such as career educational planning, received surprisingly little…

Article seeks to alert educators to the problems resulting from the use of textbooks that are unsatisfactory, and indeed harmful, to members of both majority and minority groups. (Author/GB)

Results of experiments have demonstrated the reliability of a spatial attribute of memory for verbal recall of text material. (Authors)

Paper presented at the Ohio Valley Sociological Society Meetings in London, Ontario, Canada, May 1972. (NQ)

Discusses a survey of history and economics textbooks and their treatment of the concept of free enterprise. The survey found that the textbooks were not adequate in the area of history, theory, foundation, and manner in which free enterprise is practiced. (JOW)

The gamut and solmization, two theoretical concepts devised by the ancient Greeks and developed as pedagogical aids by subsequent theoreticians, were used extensively in the music textbooks of seventeenth-century Britain and eighteenth-century America. This study investigated these concepts in the texts of several characteristic English and…

Examined elementary school spelling textbooks in order to determine the nature of current spelling instruction. (Author/MP)

Examines the role that elaborate analogy can play when middle school students learn a major concept from a science text. Discusses implications for meaningful science learning. Contains 59 references. (DDR)

Many scientists are concerned about efforts to place disclaimers in textbooks concerning the controversial nature of certain theories. The issues raised in such disclaimers are that a particular explanation for a set of observations may not be correct, has limitations, needs further study, and is "just a theory," may be shown, eventually, to be…