[Corpora-List] Textbook corpora?

[Deane, Paul]

I've recently become interested in the possibility of constructing a
corpus of textbooks and other materials used in primary and secondary
schools (K-12). A quick review of what's readily available on the
internet doesn't reveal much work in this area. There's Donald Haye's
fairly small historical corpus of materials included in readers and
primers; there are a few studies using rather small textbook corpora for
EFL work, and there's mention here and there of the MacMillan Textbook
Corpus, but as far as I can tell it's not available for researchers, and
was primarily used in the construction of a dictionary. ETS supported
Biber's construction of a University-level academic corpus, but that is
relatively small and obviously focused above the level that I am
concerned with.

What I have in mind is not a large assemblage of texts with little
associated information, but rather a corpus designed to provide balanced
coverage over all school grades and subjects.

Does anyone know of more serious efforts to build a large and
representative corpus covering all grades and subject areas for primary
and secondary schools in any of the English-speaking countries?

Thanks,

Paul Deane

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