Keynes's explanation of both the rationale underlying downwardly sticky money wages and the consequences this phenomenon has for macroeconomic theory are reviewed. An aggregate supply curve appropriate to today's economy is then interpreted. (Author/RM)

An externality is an activity on the part of one party that enters directly into another party's utility or production function. The distinction between genuine and pecuniary externalities should not be based on their differing impacts on relative prices, but rather on their impacts on third parties' utility and production functions. (Author/RM)

Reviews how the subject of communications technology is treated in nine mass media textbooks that have been adopted widely and form the intellectual introduction for students studying mass communication. (PD)

The author responds to a critique of his article "Secondary Economics Textbooks and Ideological Bias" (Theory and Research in Social Education, Spr 1983). Contention points include the question of consensus in economics education, the concern that texts lead students to conclusions about free enterprise, and a framework for evaluating bias. (RM)

The vocabularies of basal reading systems have become more difficult over the past decade. (Author)

Stories that are provocative and interesting should be utilized in the classroom to teach children to acquire the ability to read. (CK)

New methods of teaching religion in schools are said to conform to standards set by Vatican II. Different groups of people who are raising the heresy charges are described. (JW)

Discusses the ability of textbooks to help teach the processes of composing. (FL)

Describes one method of responding to the sales techniques of college textbook publishers' representatives. (AEA)

Discusses how textbooks can influence students' social behavior throughout their lives. (FL)

Discusses the benfits that a good rhetoric can provide writing students and briefly discusses the content of a specific rhetoric. (AEA)

Recounts the experiences of an anthology compiler who wished to include excerpts from "Beowulf" in a collection of legends for fourth through sixth grade students. (FL)