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Textbooks and the Curriculum in the Postwar Era: 1950–1980 by David L. Elliott - 1990During this postwar period, the standard American public school curriculum met its greatest challenge in the federally funded, subject-oriented curriculum projects of the late 1960s and early 1970s. While textbooks reflected but had not yet come to exemplify that curriculum, they too were greatly influenced by these projects. This chapter describes how the challenge to curriculum and textbooks was met by the emergence of nationally marketed, multigrade textbook programs that became the dominant shapers of the curriculum.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below: | This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 89, No. 1. |
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- David Elliott
Educational Materials Associates
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DAVID L. ELLIOTT, codirector for Educational Materials Associates in Berkeley, California, is a former director of the Western Projects Office of the EPIE Institute and a former faculty member of the School of Education of the University of California at Berkeley.
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