Introduction
Philip G. Altbach
Part I: Social and Political Issues
1. Regulating the Text: The Socio-Historical Roots of State Control
Michael W. Apple
2. The Politics of Textbook Policy: Proposing a Framework
Kenneth K. Wong and Tome Loveless
3. The Determinants of Textbook Content
Sherry Keith
4. The New World of Textbooks: Industry Consolidation and Its Consequences
Gilbert T. Sewall and Peter Cannon
5. Constitutional Challenges to Textbooks
Edward J. Larson
Part II: Reform and Improvement
6. Nineteenth Century Policies for Twenty-First Century Practice: The Textbook Reform Dilemma
Harriet Tyson-Berntein and Arthur Woodward
7. California's Experience with Textbook Improvement
Bill Honig
8. State-Level Textbook Selection Reform: Toward the Recognition of Fundamental Control
J. Dan Marshall
9. American Textbook Reform: What Can We Learn From the Soviet Experience?
Howard Mehlinger
Part III: From the Trenches: Publishers and Authors
10. From the Ivory Tower to the Bottom Line: An Editor's Perspective on College Textbook Publishing
Naomi Silverman
11. Textbook Writing and Ideological Management: A Postmodern Approach
Joel Spring
Part IV: Literacy and Reading: Case Studies
12. Basal Reading Textbooks and the Teaching of Literacy
Allan Luke
13. Basal Readers and the Illusion of Legitimacy
Patrick Shannon
Part V: International Perspective
14. The Unchanging Variable: Textbooks in Comparative Perspective
Philip G. Altbach
Contributors
Index