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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ahead, students across the U.S. and Canada will be discussing such topics and questions as part of the TIME Education Program, which marks its 32nd anniversary with the beginning of the 1967-68 school year. Designed primarily as a high school-oriented social-studies program, this classroom service is also used in colleges, applies to courses in English and journalism as well as to those in history and the study of contemporary affairs. Consisting of the weekly issues of TIME and a Teacher's Guide, the program regularly sends teaching aids and quizzes on many subjects, and frequent...
Basic to the program, of course, is TIME itself. Since TIME began, various sections of the magazine have provided material for teachers and students. More than ever, each week's news is part of what is taught in the classroom. THE NATION and THE WORLD may serve as a weekly text of current history; almost any section can become a composition aid or a source for speech or theme topics. TIME'S ART COLOR is often used in courses or tacked to bulletin boards...
TIME, the guides and teaching aids make up an original and challenging program designed to help bring today's world closer to the classroom. Teachers who wish additional information about the program may write to: TIME Education Department, Radio City, P.O. Box 666, New York...
...cost and professional reproduction. Though home videotaping systems, which record and reproduce, are now available, they cost anywhere from $700 to $3,100. The first EVR play back units will be manufactured in Britain for $280, but one unit could be wired into many TV sets - thus serving every classroom in a school. The film will start at $21 to $52 per hour, but since it now takes only 30 seconds to make a duplicate of a 20-minute program, mass production in the U.S. could well cut prices by 75% and eventually result in TV sets with built...
...people, "the things we most need to learn are the things we most want to learn." He thinks schools "could well afford to throw out most of what we teach, because the children throw out almost all of it anyway." Holt would bring objects that interest kids into the classroom, take students out often to visit places that fascinate them. He would place older children in the same classes with younger ones, on the theory that "children are much better instructors of other children and are less threatening." Holt's system would be to avoid any system...