April 1985 | Volume 42 | Number 7

A Closer Look at Textbooks

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Original Cover/Front Matter

Overview / No One to Blame

Ron Brandt

What Every Textbook Evaluator Should Know

Connie Muther

The Case for Improving Textbooks

Jean H. Osborn, Beau Fly Jones and Marcy Stein

Readability Formulas May Be Dangerous to Your Textbooks

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

Do Textbooks Belong in Elementary Social Studies?

David L. Elliott, Kathleen Carter Nagel and Arthur Woodward

Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Mathematics Textbooks

Robert F. Nicely, Jr

Instructional Materials Will Not Improve Until We Change the System

P. Kenneth Komoski

Evaluating Computer Courseware

Kenneth A Sirotnik

Teachers Coaching Teachers

Beverly Showers

Implementing the Coaching of Teaching

Joanna Dee Servatius and Shareen E. Young

A Research-Based Staff Development Model That Works

Sara A. Edwards and Susan Barnes

Staff Development and Teacher Change

Thomas R. Guskey

What 4Mat Training Teaches Us About Staff Development

Bernice McCarthy

Research on Memory: Major Discoveries, Major Educational Challenges

Robert Sywlester

Homework's Powerful Effects on Learning

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

Helping Parents Help Their Children Learn

Dorothy Rich

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

Anne Meek Roney and Suzanne T. Richards

1994: A Memo From the Principal

J. L. Sundquist

Making a Videotape, Part III

Lewis A. Rhodes

Reviews

Trends: Mathematics / How to Teach Mathematical Problem Solving

Stephen S. Willoughby

Trends: Supervision / Improving School-University Relationships

Robert Krajewski

Trends: Curriculum Abstracts

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

ASCD in Action

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