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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting-professor program is just one example of how TIME's Education Department works with schools and colleges throughout the country on assignments that range from filling the flow of requests for classroom aids, such as the current affairs tests, to organizing direct-mail clinics for school alumni secretaries...
...From the Classroom...
Teachers in other fields have also found other of our pamphlets helpful. Marketing professors, for example, make classroom use of some of our independent research reports on magazine audiences, marketing studies and consumer buying habits. For many years, teachers of political science, speech and English have used TIME itself as a supplementary text in their classes. For these thousands of teachers we prepare and supply material ranging from special map enlargements to an annual TIME cover quiz...
...Institute of Cerebral Physiology, electrotelepathecast ing in all directions in space-time." Typical of Horizon's gnawing sense that the times are out of joint is Paul Goodman's Iddings Clark, a surrealistic tale of a mousy English teacher whose personality splinters until finally he enters his classroom "stark naked except for his spectacles and a Whittier in his right hand...
...classroom at the University of Chicago one morning last week, a group of city high-school students wrestled with an odd sort of problem. The class happened to be in mathematics, but the sort of math the teen-agers were tackling went far beyond anything that even most college students know. Based partly on the theories of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, it involved symbolic logic and sentence calculus. "Logically valid conditionals and bi-conditionals, or the implications they embody," blithely explained the professor, "give rise not only to rules of sound inference-by which to proceed step...