Volume 6, Issue 1. 1975

Themes:

censorship; right-wing extremism; ethnocentrism; self-esteem; "Guide to Racism Rating"; "Criteria for Evaluating the Treatment of Minority Groups in Textbooks and Other Curriculum Materials"; stereotypes; sexism; Title IX; cultural bias

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Mary Kay Stark, Judith Kram, Mary Ellen Shepard, Sue Ribner, Claudia Strauss, Edwin Henry, Celina Marcus Snowden, Ray Anthony Shepard, Vicki Cobb

Materials Reviewed:

She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl by Eloise Greenfield. Amazon / WorldCat
Naomi in the Middle by Norma Klein. Amazon / WorldCat
All in a Day's Work by Miriam Levitt Baygell and Anne Ackerman. Amazon / WorldCat
Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen. Amazon / WorldCat
Doctor Shawn by Petronella Breinburg. Amazon / WorldCat
A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich by Alice Childress. Amazon / WorldCat
War and Peas by Michael Foreman. Amazon / WorldCat
The Amazing Travels of Ingrid Our Turtle by Peter Lippman. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

People Use the Earth by Edna A. Anderson et al.
Learning to Look at Our World by Kenneth S. Cooper et al.
The Changing Old World by Kenneth S. Cooper et al.
Ohio Geography, History, Government by Carl H. Roberts and Paul R. Cummins
The Free and the Brave by Henry F. Graff
Magruder's American Government by William A. McClenaghan and Frank Abbott Magruder
Communities and Their Needs by Edna A. Anderson
Man's Unfinished Journey by Marvin Perry et al.
Background for Tomorrow by Bertha H. Davis
Families and Their Needs by Edna A. Anderson
Land of the Free by John W. Caughey, John Hope Franklin and Ernest R. May
This is Man by Edna A. Anderson
Man and Society by Edna A. Anderson et al.
Man and His World by Edna A. Anderson et al.
Man in American by Richard C. Brown
Man and Change by Edna A. Anderson et al.
The Bobbsey Twins series by Laura Lee Hope
Tom Swift series by Victor Appleton II and Graham Kaye
Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
The Rover Boys series by Edward Stratemeyer
The Hardy Boys series by Franklin W Dixon
Stop Sex Role Stereotypes in Elementary Education by Martha Cohen
You Won't Do by Jennifer S. MacLeod and Sandra T. Silverman
Dick and Jane as Victims: Sex-Role Stereotyping in Children's Readers by Women on Words and Images

Keywords:

multicultural texts, National Education Association's Teacher Rights Division, censorship, selection, right-wing extremism, National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, textbooks, ethnocentrism, self-esteem, "Guide to Racism Rating", Foundation for Change, "Criteria for Evaluating the Treatment of Minority Groups in Textbooks and Other Curriculum Materials", Robert Cutler, series, stereotypes, Edward Stratemeyer, revision, Dorothy Massie, Ginn and Company, Ben DeLuca Jr., Doris Colomb, obscenity, Ku Klux Klan, Non-Christians Against the Books, NAACP, Black Alliance Against child Neglect, Reverend Ronald English, Kanawha County Coalition for Quality Education, Metro-Ministry Task Force, Holly Knox, Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, sexism, Title IX, Elizabeth Blackwell, Susan B. anthony, Ms., Womansport, Ethel Sadowsky, Massachusetts Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, Stratemeyer Syndicate, International Women's Year Arts Festival, M. Newfield, IQ. tests, testing, cultural bias, Larry P. vs. Riles, Puerto Rican, ASPIRA of New York, ASPIRA of America, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund; John Fadden; Ademola Olugebefola; Carol Blank