1. Introduction

   • JPD

   Special Feature: School Adoptions and Textbook Quality (Part 1) Pages: 3 - 3

2. Textbook adoption: Insight, impact, and potential

   • Michael A. Tulley
   • Roger Farr

   Special Feature: School Adoptions and Textbook Quality (Part 1) Pages: 4 - 11

3. Textbooks to the forefront

   • James R. Squire

   Special Feature: School Adoptions and Textbook Quality (Part 1) Pages: 12 - 18

4. The school textbook adoption process

   • Robert Follett

   Special Feature: School Adoptions and Textbook Quality (Part 1) Pages: 19 - 23

5. Choosing textbooks: A study of instructional materials selection processes for public education

   • Sherry Keith

   Special Feature: School Adoptions and Textbook Quality (Part 1) Pages: 24 - 37

6. Basal reading programs: Development, effectiveness, and selection

   • Jean Osborn
   • Marcy Stein

   Special Feature: School Adoptions and Textbook Quality (Part 1) Pages: 38 - 48

7. The adoption process of reading texts in Virginia and its application in the Arlington Public Schools

   • Lynn Z. Lang

   Special Feature: School Adoptions and Textbook Quality (Part 1) Pages: 49 - 72

8. The role of professional associations in textbook selection: The national council for the social studies

   • Shirley Grinnell Fitzgibbons

   Special Feature: School Adoptions and Textbook Quality (Part 1) Pages: 73 - 81

9. U.S. book industries

   • William S. Lofquist

   Statistical Series Pages: 82 - 86

10. Reporting book prices

    • Frederick C. Lynden

    BriefCommunication Pages: 87 - 89

11. Book reviews

    BookReview Pages: 90 - 95