Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formal Uses for In-School TV" will evaluate the use of Television inside the classroom. This final evening session will be held on July 18, and among the speakers will be Harold C. Hunt, Under-secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...
...education, both the traditional and the progressive school are unsuited. From his earliest years the child must learn "the value of participation . . . He should learn to regard himself as a constructive critic [of the school] who not only dares to question the rules and program of a given classroom, but who also is expected to offer suggestions for improvement." Authority rests not so much with the teacher as with the group. "The teacher himself may belong to the minority−a position which he will gladly accept and for which he will be respected . . . The only acceptable definition...
...action in the economic field. A non-profit foundation, the Festival is devoted to the presentation of works of "classic drama," such as the three that are planned for this summer. It feels that this is a whole area of important dramatic literature too often relegated to the classroom, and that these works, which are classics for good reason, will return to the popular repertory if they are properly presented. And to reinforce this conviction, "to implement, in a practical fashion, the notion that today's student can be tomorrow's steady theatregoer," the Festival is offering students...
...situation is further complicated by the probable reaction of the whites to Negro teachers in integrated schools. They will not like it. Having Negro children in the classroom is quite different from having a Negro teacher, who will have considerably more influence on the white students than their fellow Negro classmates. This prospect may increase southern resistance to integration to any unmanageable point...
...Negro education in Georgia is a disgrace. What the Negro child gets in the sixth grade, the white child gets in the third grade." This appraisal of the Southern Negro's classroom plight came neither from a Northerner nor a N.A.A.C.P. propagandist; it was pronounced in 1948 by Fred Hand, then the speaker of Georgia's own House of Representatives. Hand's observation has now been expanded and documented in a beacon-bright study titled The Negro Potential (Columbia University; $3). The book, containing a statistics-studded chapter on Negro education in the U.S., was produced...