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Textbooks: Consensus and Controversy

by Arthur Woodward & David L. Elliott - 1990

In this chapter we argue that the kind of consensus that would make it feasible to publish single textbook programs to be marketed across the entire nation while maintaining high standards of instructional quality does not exist.

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This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 89, No. 1.

Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 91 Number 5, 1990, p. 146-161
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 18907, Date Accessed: 7/16/2020 12:56:51 AM

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Arthur Woodward University of Rochester E-mail Author ARTHUR WOODWARD is a research associate at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester. David Elliott Educational Materials Associates E-mail Author 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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