THE CITY READING PROGRAM FOR DETROIT WAS EVALUATED ON THE VERBAL COMPETENCE, INTEREST APPEAL FOR REREADING AND THE INFLUENCE ONCHILDREN'S ATTITUDES. THE PROGRAM INCLUDED A NEW SERIES OF TEXTBOOKS WHICH WERE SHORTER, SUSPENSEFUL AND STRESSED UNIQUE. VOCABULARY AND MIXED RACIAL SITUATIONS. THE ACCOMPANYING TEACHER'S MANUAL FOR THE PROGRAM PLACES…

A RECOMMENDED STANDARDIZED SYMBOLIZATION RESULTED FROM A DETAILED COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANALYTICAL SYMBOLIZATION AND TERMINOLOGY FOUND IN MUSIC THEORY AND HARMONY TEXTBOOKS WHICH WERE IN GENERAL USE IN THE UNITED STATES. OVER 200 MEMBER SCHOOLS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF MUSIC PROVIDED DATA ON MATERIALS. ABSTRACTS SHOWING…

This guide, designed for fourth, fifth and sixth grade teachers using the "Seeing through Arithmetic" textbook series provides unit overviews and, for each unit, a listing of skills and ideas covered, page references, vocabulary needed, suggested activities, and materials needed for those activites. An evaluation checklist is provided for each…

The first four books of the Economy spelling series, "Spelling Growth," are reviewed in this paper in terms of content and, to a lesser degree, method. The Economy series is teacher-directed and emphasizes discrimination and identification of sounds. These two skills are clearly useful for spelling, but it is claimed that the series…

An investigation was made of the values found in children's basal readers from grades 1 through 3. These values were then each classified by student and professor judges in terms of a particular philosophy of education, either Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism, Reconstructionism, or Existentialism. A factor analysis was also undertaken in…

The new edition of Eckermann's and Piert's textbook: "English" (Klette, Stuttgart, 1974) is analyzed in regard to topics such as problem-oriented texts and linguistic requirements for the college diploma. (Text is in German.) (IFS/MS)

Examines validity of claims made for the Mannheim Rating (of teaching texts for German as a foreign language), as well as its criteria for judging textbooks. The nonexistence of a comprehensive grammar of contemporary German makes it difficult to discuss grammar; therefore, some ratings are seen as too harsh. (IFS/WGA)

Finds that teaching textbooks are becoming more complex and difficult, and less interesting. A procedure is suggested for measuring these qualities in a textbook, based on the "Reading Ease" and "Human Interest" indices of R. Flesh, in Volume 6 of his work "The Good Companion". Two samples from texts are appended. (IFS/WGA)

Sample sentences in grammar books and in tests too frequently deal with cynicism and despair. (DD)

The author describes in personal terms the genesis of his introductory psychology text, Understanding Human Behavior. (Author)

Discusses possible social meanings of social studies knowledge. Argues that a major social function of the information in social studies textbooks is to provide formal justification for and legitimation of ongoing institutional practices. (Author)

Presents a checklist for teachers to use in analyzing educational materials for sex stereotypes and related language usage. (JM)

Discussion of the sequence of tenses and the subjunctive in Spanish language textbooks demonstrates that there is a lack of mechanical morphonological agreement and that subjunctives may have a temporal value independent of that of the matrix with associated semantic differences; that is, subjunctives do not function as neutralized forms…

Notes introductory undergraduate economics textbooks have no formal analysis of the rationale for direct foreign investment by multinational firms. Examines this area in an attempt to develop more content information for undergraduate courses. (RKM)