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Moreover, white and Negro children were getting the same TV lesson all over segregated South Carolina-the state that has the most complete commitment to classroom...
Launched four years ago in a converted Columbia supermarket, South Carolina's classroom TV now reaches 65 high schools (20 Negro) in 27 of the state's 46 counties. Another 65 schools (35 Negro) will join up next fall, and the goal in six years is six courses daily throughout the state's 413 high schools, plus other courses in the 1,200 grade schools...
...catch up, South Carolina is pouring money into its schools: 50% of every tax dollar now goes to education, and 80% of all pupils are in new classrooms. But the schools are "hollow," as one official puts it. Supported by the nation's third lowest per-capita income ($1,397), they can pay classroom teachers an average of only $3,760 a year, against the U.S. average of $5,527. As a result, South Carolina is critically short of able teachers...
Broad Goal. The solution is to put the state's best teachers on TV and beam their skills at every classroom. First talked up by a group of businessmen, notably Textile Manufacturer John Cauthen, closed-circuit TV can eventually cover the state at a yearly cost of only $14 per pupil. The goal is still distant, but the state legislature has yet to turn down a single new TV appropriation. Each year more coaxial cables are run from schools to microwave stations that pick up broadcasts from the South Carolina Educational Television Commission's well-appointed studios...
Fringe Benefits. Moreover, teachers are used more efficiently. Columbia's A.C. Flora High School, for example, is doing away with separate plane geometry sections, now groups 230 students in one large classroom with half a dozen TV sets suspended from the ceiling. Supervised by one teacher and two assistants, the students typically watch the TV lesson for 30 minutes, then spend 15 minutes discussing it. One result: the bottom two-thirds of this year's students recently tested higher than the median of last year's separate classes. Even more impressive, the statewide median scores...