The use of illustrations in textbooks is reviewed and seven functions of explicative illustrations are presented--descriptive, expressive, constructional, functional, logico-mathematical, algorithmic, and data-display. (RAO)

This article describes an approach to developing student reading materials that support middle school learners in a project-based, inquiry curriculum for grades 6 through 8. Reading materials are designed to encourage sense making beyond the classroom, as students read and write about science as it takes place in a classroom and as it occurs in…

This is a true story about how a group of teachers, parents, kids, and friends wrote and distributed their own textbook. (RC)

Reports that the writing of textbooks, once the domain of professional educators, has increasingly become a field for professional writers and journalists. (RB)

A series of eight manuals dealing with the triad text characteristics--learning processes--learning outcomes are being prepared for use by authors and editors as an aid in the design and writing of educational texts. These manuals are based upon a model for the functioning of text characteristics which in turn is part of a decision model for the…

This paper explores methodologies of identifying and combating sexism in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) textbooks. The writer of this paper has found out there exists sexism or gender inequality in the Chinese high school EFL textbooks. The writer hopes that future EFL curriculum designers, EFL textbook writers, textbook censors in textbook…

Over-the-transom'' proposals for college textbooks continue to flood editors' desks, but very few are properly prepared. This article suggests both guidelines for a good proposal, as well as some additional hints for textbook publication. (Author/JA)

Points to remember in getting a textbook published are examined: book idea, publisher's sales representatives, letter of inquiry, qualifications for authorship, author information form, idea proposal, reviews, marketing and sales, publishing agreement, author royalties, and copyright assignment. (CT)

Discusses the state of the mathematics textbook market and the debate surrounding the efforts to improve mathematics instruction, including the standards-based mathematics curriculum supported by the National Science Foundation. (Contains 12 references.) (PKP)

In a survey, directors and teachers rated parent relations ("difficult parents"), parent communication, and effective communication among their greatest frustrations and most important training topics. Readers named discipline, nutrition, toilet training, and kindergarten readiness among the most common concerns expressed by parents regarding…

Family-school collaboration related to children's physical development has become increasingly important as childhood obesity rates continue to rise. The present study described the development and implementation of a literacy-based, family component of a school-based health education program and investigated its viability, acceptability, and…