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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...write in four months) that the lessons have been adapted with UNESCO aid for TV use in India, Africa and the Middle East. ¶for Courage. Dynamo behind this week's U.S. drive is bustling Mayes Behrman, 67, literacy director of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which teaches simple crafts to mountain people. Last year Behrman raised $16,000 to get WKNO's 98 lessons kinescoped, ran them over Charlotte's WBTV for 1,000 students. The 750 graduates, who proudly showed up for a televised commencement, deluged Behrman with thanks ("I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass Assault | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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