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...after schools open each fall, we are conscious that TIME is undergoing a special kind of examination. For we begin to hear from some of the thousands of teach ers in secondary schools and colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada who use the magazine as a regular part of classroom work. Teachers and stu dents read, discuss, dissect, argue, criticize, challenge-and think. In some instances, as in the case of a St. Louis high school's freshman honors course for pupils with an IQ of 125 to 145, TIME has been required reading. For those schools formally associated...
More often than not, the study of TIME goes far beyond mere classroom work in current events. A teacher in an Illinois high school, with pupils who come largely from rural homes that do not receive a daily newspaper, found that use of the magazine in her classwork "opened up the world to whole families." At Regis High School in Denver, the Rev. Donald H. Miller, S.J., has used TIME in teaching medieval and ancient history. "TIME," he wrote, "represents to me an ideal which I hold out to my history class -an understanding of contemporary events in a historical...
...this school year began at Ewing High School in Trenton, N.J., History Teacher William R. di George put 125 seniors through his annual test. For two weeks, the students are given an opportunity to study a display of TIME covers on the classroom walls. Then each cover is placed under a mat so that only the face is visible, and the picture is projected onto a screen. In a written test, the students are required to identify 100 cover subjects by name and specific endeavor. Through the years, this visual test has a special impact in creating and deepening...
...city's largest Negro church and the scene of several recent civil rights rallies. The morning's lesson was "The Love That Forgives," from the fifth chapter of Matthew.* Four girls ? Carole Robertson, 14, Cynthia Wesley, 14, Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Denise McNair, 11 ? left the classroom to go to the bathroom...
While she peeked at the classroom visitor, the typing student idly pecked: CARY CARY CARYYYYYYYYYYYYY. It was squealsville at Washington's Shaw Junior High School. Suave and swellegant Cary Grant, 59, quickly toured the building, averaged a swoon a room. The British-born actor was in town to campaign for the privately sponsored Stay-in-School Fund, dropped in on the overcrowded, predominantly Negro classes to get an idea of what causes dropouts. Wasn't he a dropout himself? someone asked. Perish the thought, replied Cary, whose formal education ended at the age of 13. "I was expelled...