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Clark, Penney – History of Education, 2009
This article examines the controversy that ensued when the Education Department of the province of Ontario, Canada, granted the tender to publish elementary school readers to the T. Eaton Company, a department store, in 1909. This decision eliminated an important source of income for retail booksellers, who could not compete with the consumer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Educational History, Instructional Materials