Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Music Tutor," mostly for classroom use. The viewer looks at the square face of the device on which are the two musical staffs and the bass and the treble clefs. As the teacher presses a button, a musical note flashes on to identify. Price...
Harvard will alter its telephone system beginning this Saturday, changing its number to UNiversity 8-7600. On that date, the extension for Summer School student and classroom information will become 2691, and the extension for Counsellors for Men and Women and for Student Activities will...
...parochial schools; 3) mission collections teach children to make sacrifices; 4) Mrs. Cronin could help improve her children's textbooks by working with Parent-Teacher Associations; 5) if the play nets enough to pay an additional ?teacher next year, the doubled-up class may be separated-if another classroom is available ("This is a national problem, as you must know"). Concluded Sister Mary: "The Sisters would be jubilant if they discovered that from now on they are to be free to teach...
...National Education Association, strident P.T.A. chapters throughout the nation, school boards, and educational theorists hiding in our universities, have elaborate programs for action. Unfortunately, the ghost of "progressive education" haunts any program of experiment. The failure of total student freedom in the classroom, the neglect of basic skills for intellectual meandering,--those character defects of modern education which have come to be associated with "progressive education" have engendered in the minds of parents and the press an idea that education must return to the little red school house, the three R's, and the straightlaced New England discipline. Weekly, Time...
Experimentation with "segregated" classes on the basis of ability is the urgent need of every school where bright children must mark time and rehear explanations they understood at once repeated a fifth time for the classroom dullard. This experimentation should be given a fair chance--unlike faint-hearted programs poorly endowed and incapably administered in one school district for one school year, and then abandoned. Experimentation, and change...