Schools began that year with no social studies textbooks, while a local committee tried to come up with the district's own materials.

HE said science programs had been upgraded, children had new science and social studies textbooks and a broader range of reading books was available.

Publishers of social studies textbooks would seek her comments, and she was an adviser to North American Muslim student groups.

The Los Angeles public schools, for example, acquire new social studies textbooks every five to eight years, officials there said.

This is the official definition given in social studies textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education in Panama.

But they will also hear enough talk of weighty policy matters to fill a social studies textbook.

People can tie up a table for hours, highlighting their social studies textbook or reading the paper, without anyone shooing them away.

Women: A Feminist Perspective went into five editions and for many years was the leading introductory women's studies textbook.

She said standard social studies textbooks spend only a few sentences on the lives of historical figures.

Publishers of social studies textbooks, which have been criticized as superficial and deadening, are also heeding criticism.