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DURING the school year, TIME takes on a special meaning-and use-for more than 5,000 teachers and their students in the U.S., Canada and 23 other countries. As classes resume this fall, these teachers will be enrolling their students in the TIME Education Program, our classroom service that makes TIME, plus specially prepared teaching aids and testing materials, available to high schools and colleges from September through...
...organize the news into as many as 24 different departments helps meet the special needs of social-studies teachers, as well as those in English, journalism, speech and art. The NATION and WORLD sections, for example, serve as a weekly text of current history, the basis for classroom discussions and reports. Virtually every department becomes a composition aid and a source for theme topics. And our full-color reproductions of paintings find their way into art classes and onto bulletin boards...
...important part of our classroom service is a monthly testing program. Beginning with a 50-question Vacation Review Quiz in September, and ending with a Year-End Review in May, the program includes regular quizzes in intervening months, plus the widely used annual TIME Current Affairs Test in January. Based on a year's events, this 100-question test was taken last year by more than 1,000,000 students...
...demand that the all-white company hire Negroes. After Dessie Williams' death last week, some 200 Negroes gathered around the firehouse, shouting, jeering and throwing rocks. They taunted the firemen by setting small piles of debris ablaze, hurled a Molotov cocktail onto the roof of a mobile classroom across the street. Heaving missiles and assaulting whites, the crowd spread over a twelve-block area before it was dispersed. Seven persons were injured, among them four policemen hit by bricks and bottles. Not Satisfied. Next morning the Fire Department suspended the fire-truck driver and the company's captain...
According to Smalls, the interest generated by individual courses extends beyond the classroom. The students begin to think and talk...