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...SPACE, an acronym for Sperry Program for Advancing Careers through Education. Though taught on a graduate level, it does not offer college accreditation. "But where else," asks Director Tom Hirschberg, "can students find that today's breakthroughs in the research laboratory are tonight's lessons in the classroom?" "Far-Out U.," as students call it, enrolls half of Sperry's engineering and science staff in 34 advanced courses. For blue-collar workers eager to escape possible technological unemployment, the company designed 14 courses (Basic Electronics, for example) and several textbooks...
...Harbor elementary school, overlooking summer vacationers looking over the rockbound coast of Maine, seems an unlikely place to originate major medical news about some of the most baffling and intractable diseases of man. But last week the school was the classroom for a course in hereditary disease sponsored by the National Foundation-March of Dimes and attended by 100 research specialists from most of the top U.S. medical schools and research institutions. The results were highlighted by two significant reports: on dwarfism (see following story), and on the possible prevention of muscular dystrophy...
...small and conservative Ithaca College* presses some modern communications technology into use in the fall of 1965, any student on the school's new $20 million campus will be able to pick up the phone in his room, dial an archive of magnetic tapes, and hear any classroom lecture in philosophy, history or English that he happens to have missed. The plan, probably the first in the U.S., is aimed at students who cannot show up for class because of illness or scheduling conflicts, and at industrious pupils who want to hear a lecture repeated before taking an exam...
...population explosion, new approaches to education also have a lot to do with it. Today's students are taught by advanced methods, served by an array of sophisticated products. At Fontana, Calif., this fall, fifth and sixth graders will watch pretaped lessons on marine biology on closed-circuit classroom TV screens. Another new departure is a device that permits instant testing of student comprehension by having the students push response buttons after lectures...
...women and five men between the ages of 56 and 75 who volunteered in response to a newspaper story. Each trainee received two 45 minute periods of driving instruction per week with a graduate student in Professor Loft's department, as well as a two-hour classroom session. The first classroom session was devoted to tests of visual acuity, including distance judgment, reaction time, ability to distinguish colors, see in the dark and recover from headlight glare. The remaining classroom sessions included handling the buttons and levers, everyday driving maneuvers, good practices in traffic, on freeways and under...