Word: classroom
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...contrast, The Clearing House, a magazine for high school teachers, offers a clue to what "modern" teachers expect of U.S. high school students. Its "Tricks of the Trade" column recommends the use of mail-order catalogues in the classroom. Reason: they are "wonderful teaching aids. Skills which can be quite painlessly developed include: use of an index, addition and subtraction, certainly multiplication, use of a postage rate table, writing checks and money orders, spelling and penmanship." Besides, looking things up in a catalogue...
Like Geary, Jack M. Stein, professor of German, contended "the tests aren't adequate." "The German tests were devised some years ago and no longer fit the instruction that goes on in the classroom," Stein declared...
...following advertisement appeared in a recent CRIMSON: "Your school now offers full academic credit for Probability and Statistics, a television course given weekday mornings on Continental Classroom...
Next year's Continental Classroom on NBC will probably be devoted either to economics or biology, according to Mosteller. He had no idea who the lecturers might be, however...
...student of Horatio Parker at Yale when he was 18. He began to break free from tradition in 1921, when he became an instructor in theory at the Cleveland Institute, where he worked under Ernest Bloch. Since then, Composer Sessions, now teaching at Princeton, has sent forth from his classroom some of the most promising names in U.S. music-Leon Kirchner, David Diamond, Andrew Imbrie, Milton Babbitt...