Volume 10, Issue 7. 1979

Themes:

anti-nuclear struggle; ageism; classism; handicapism; sexism; racism; Native American; self-esteem; sex equity; Title IX; historical omission and misrepresentation; stereotypes; Black writers; whiteness in publishing

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Myra Sadker, David Sadker, Tom Hicks, Barbara Stanford, Jean Procope-Martin, Patricia Campbell, Lyla Hoffman, Child Care Resource Center, Eugene S. Rave, Beryle C. Gillespie, Liz Gong, Sonia Nieto, Paula Wolff, Kipp Watson, Vicki Breitbart

Materials Reviewed:

Chloris and the Weirdos by Kin Platt. Amazon / WorldCat
An Album of the Great Depression by William Loren Katz. Amazon / WorldCat
Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian and White Relations by Peter Nabokov. Amazon / WorldCat
China: Geography, History, Customs, Festivals, and Food by Jean Butterfield. Amazon / WorldCat
A Secret Friend by Marilyn Sachs. Amazon / WorldCat
Puerto Rico, Island Between Two Worlds by Lila Perl. Amazon / WorldCat
Women in Congress by Essie E. Lee. Amazon / WorldCat
White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training by Judy H. Katz. Amazon / WorldCat
Ourselves and Our Children: A Book by and for Parents by Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Amazon / WorldCat
Response Guides for Teaching Children's Book by Albert B. Somers and Janet Evans Worthington. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Energy Bibliography by National Intervenors Inc.
The Energy Efficient Home by Steve Robinson and Fred Dubin
The Menace of Atomic Energy by Ralph Nader and John Abbotts
The New Tyranny by Robert Jungk
No Nukes! Everyone's Guide to Nuclear Power by Anna Gyorgy and friends
Nuclear Madness by Helen Caldicott
Poverty of Power by Barry Commoner
Radioactive Contamination by Virginia Brodine
Shut Down: Nuclear Power on Trial
The Silent Bomb: A Guide to the Nuclear Energy Controversy by Peter Faulkner ed.
Swords from Plowshares by Albert Wohlstetter
Introduction to the Foundations of American Education by James Johnson et al.
Planning for Teaching by Robert Richey
Those Who Can, Teach by Kevin Ryan and James Cooper
Education: A Beginning by William Van Til
Psychology Applied to Teaching by Robert Biehler
Educational Psychology by N. L. Gage and David Berliner
Educational Psychology by Thomas Good and Jere Brophy
The Teaching of Reading by Martha Dallman
Teaching Them to Read by Dolores Durkin
Teaching Elementary Reading by Robert Karlin
Reading in the Elementary School by George Spache and Evelyn Spache
The Reading Process by Miles Zintz
The Language Arts in Childhood Education by Paul Burns and Betty Broman
Children Learn to Communicate by Sara Lundsteen
Experiences in Language by Walter Petty, Dorothy Petty, and Marjorie Becking
Teaching Elementary Language Arts by Dorothy Rubin
Elementary School Science by Glenn Bough and Julius Schwartz
Science in Elementary Education by Peter Gega
Teaching Science as Continuous Inquiry by May Budd Rowe
Discovering Meanings in Elementary School Mathematics by Foster Grossnickle and John Reckzeh
Today's Mathematics by James Heddens
Teaching Elementary School Mathematics for Understanding by John Marks et al.
Social Studies in Elementary Education by John Jarolimek
Social Studies for Children in a Democracy by John Michaelis
The Friends by Rosa Guy
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursey Rhymes by Iona Oppie and Peter Oppie
The Ostrich Girl by Ray Prather
Puerto Rico: Commonwealth, State or Nation? by Byron Williams
Puerto Rico: The Flame of Resistance by Peoples Press Puerto Rico Project
Friends by Betty Worthington
Little-Miss-Yes-Miss by Yvonne Singer
I Love My Plant! / J'aime ma plante! by Marion Schaffer

Keywords:

anti-nuclear struggle, ageism, classism, handicapism, Disabled in Action (DIA), sexism, racism, Native American, Richard Lercari, Lisha Papert, Friends Nuclear Hazards Resource Center, bibliographies, book lists, self-esteem, textbooks, teacher training, evaluation, sex equity, content analysis, Title IX, historical omission and misrepresentation, stereotypes, terminology, numerical analysis, Non-Sexist Teacher Education Project (NSTEP), Black, Black literature, Black studies, Black writers, publishing - whiteness, Kristin Hunter, Rosa Guy, Sharon Bell Mathis, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Native Son, Maya Angelou, censorship, quotas, nursery rhymes, "Ten Little N*****s", "Ten Little Indians", Kids Can Press, Films Inc., deaf, Perennial Education, Tricontinental Films, Educational Development Center, Dennis Hicks, desegregation, multicultural, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)