Textbooks Focus on Pictures Over Words in Texas Schools
Textbooks in Texas public schools emphasize illustrations over words for first graders. In five state adopted series, every page has at least one illustration, with many pages containing no text at all, giving children two to five times more picture pages than word pages.
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Ann Watson
United. Press International
Texas
Houghton Mifflin
Tip
Scott, Foresman
Sally
Dick and
Jane
American Book Company
Our
Maccmillan
Harper & Row
Janet and
Mark
Janet
Jeanne §. Chall
Harvard
Jimmy
Scott Foresman
Harper & Row Books
Picta Company
Funny Girl tops year’s film hits in Streisand star turn
New York report credits Barbra Streisand with transforming Funny Girl from Broadway sensation to a likely best picture of 1968. The piece notes changes for film, mentions soundtrack shifts, compares to My Fair Lady casting moves, lists related single records and tape releases, and cites Texas Education Agency figures for readers.
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New York
Hollywood
Fanny Brice
Audrey Hepburn
Eliza Doolittle
Marni Nixon
Eliza
Andrews
Barbra Streisand
Barbra
Miss Brice
My Man
Fannie Brice
Helen Morgan
Alice Faye
Fannie
Washington Square
Capitol
Miss Streisand
Sidney’ Chaplin
Lubbock Chamber Breakfast Club resumes after summer break
About 250 members and guests attended the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Club at Koko Palace starting at 7 am. Dr. O. Brandon Hull reported June July business activity index at 25, the highest among large Texas cities. Cecil Hunter “Stuttering Sam” was special guest. the $50 door prize rolled over to next month.
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Lubbock
Horton Shipley
Shipley
Bernie Howell
O. Brandon Hull
Chamber
Texas
Cecil Hunter
Sam
Carlsbad
N.M
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Barbra Streisand Stars
William D. Lasfler
Herb Alpert
A&m Records
Ruby Foo
Deep Water Reunion
RCA Victor
John Foster & Sons Ltd
Black Dyke Mills Band
Apple
Ella Fitzgerald
EveryMothers’ Son
MGM _ I
Earl
Fatha’ Hines
Fats Waller
Hines
Elder Statesman
Ampex
Macmillan
Texas Education Agency
Houghton-Mifflin
Macmillan Books
Scott- Foresman
Pater State Bank
F.d.1.c
Hull
Winc
T.n.m.&o
Amarillo
W. Falls
Odessa
Abilene
San Angelo
Clovis Hobbs
Thm&o Coaches, Inc
Lubbock, Texas
Hormel
Renes Beco
RCA Color
Bob Hindman
Appliance Discount Center
Gibson
Range
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