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April 1985 | Volume 42 | Number 7

A Closer Look at Textbooks


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Overview / No One to Blame

Ron Brandt

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What Every Textbook Evaluator Should Know

Connie Muther

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The Case for Improving Textbooks

Jean H. Osborn, Beau Fly Jones and Marcy Stein

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Readability Formulas May Be Dangerous to Your Textbooks

Bonnie B. Armbruster, Jean H. Osborn and Alice L. Davison

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Do Textbooks Belong in Elementary Social Studies?

David L. Elliott, Kathleen Carter Nagel and Arthur Woodward

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Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Mathematics Textbooks

Robert F. Nicely, Jr

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Instructional Materials Will Not Improve Until We Change the System

P. Kenneth Komoski

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Evaluating Computer Courseware

Kenneth A Sirotnik

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Teachers Coaching Teachers

Beverly Showers

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Implementing the Coaching of Teaching

Joanna Dee Servatius and Shareen E. Young

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A Research-Based Staff Development Model That Works

Sara A. Edwards and Susan Barnes

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Staff Development and Teacher Change

Thomas R. Guskey

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What 4Mat Training Teaches Us About Staff Development

Bernice McCarthy

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Research on Memory: Major Discoveries, Major Educational Challenges

Robert Sywlester

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Homework's Powerful Effects on Learning

Herbert J. Walberg, Rosanne A. Paschal and Thomas Weinstein

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Helping Parents Help Their Children Learn

Dorothy Rich

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Reading Lesson and a Shirt for Christmas: The Supervisor as Teacher

Anne Meek Roney and Suzanne T. Richards

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1994: A Memo From the Principal

J. L. Sundquist

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Making a Videotape, Part III

Lewis A. Rhodes

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Reviews

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Trends: Mathematics / How to Teach Mathematical Problem Solving

Stephen S. Willoughby

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Trends: Supervision / Improving School-University Relationships

Robert Krajewski

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Trends: Curriculum Abstracts

Samuel J. Alessi, Jr, James A. Beane and Conrad F. Toepfer, Jr

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