Word: classroom
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...council hopes to become a major clearing house of information for parents and teachers who are worried about present standards. Its monthly Bulletin (present circulation: 2,000) spotlights various school programs of high academic quality, reviews pertinent articles and books. In the current Bulletin, the council attacks various classroom distractions which, it claims, are justified by educationists "in the name of 'educating the whole child,' or of the Dewey-eyed notion that instead of preparing a child for society, a school should be a miniature, make-believe re flection of society." Among the questions it urges parents...
...nounced that next year NBC will produce, three times a week for 26 weeks, instructional programs in mathematics, the humanities and government, and feed them live-and free-to the nation's 22 edu cational TV stations. The programs will be kinescoped for repeat telecasts or classroom use. In producing them (cost: $300,000), NBC will work with leading educators and the Educational Television and Radio Center at Ann Arbor, Mich...
...faculty will be enlarged in proportion to the increase in the student body, and new physical facilities will be added. The college will enhance its classroom, laboratory, and library space, and will provide new dormitory rooms for the increasing numbers of resident students...
...project was a limited one, and was concerned mainly with the uses of television in preparing elementary and secondary school teachers. A microwave relay system was set up to transmit actual classroom situations from Weeks Junior High School in Newton, Massachusetts, to the third floor lounge in Littauer Center at Harvard, where teachers-in-training were assembled to observe the various classes in action...
...fair to say that experiments over the past few years have demonstrated the feasibility of using closed-circuit TV in the teaching process. Although the Education School's four day experiment was too short to reach any definitive conclusion, most observers felt that, with provisions for the control of classroom acoustics (which were very poor) and classroom lighting (which was satisfactory) and certain other technical problems, closed-circuit television has a definite potential for the observation and analysis of classroom situations. The chief disadvantage of the experiment proved to be the high cost of the five-and-one-half mile...