Word: currently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better Learning reports on a project which has been in the works for four years: exposing secondary school pupils to current materials, a phrase which educators use to describe magazines, newspapers, radio recordings, and kindred study helps-as distinguished from textbooks. The book compares the progress of these students with similar groups which made little or no use of current materials...
...California Council is a voluntary organization of teachers who were in at the beginning of the experiment, became so enthusiastic about it that they devoted their own time to writing this handbook on the use of current materials for their fellow-teachers everywhere-and TIME Inc. is proud to have played a small part in their project...
...fourth year, there is overwhelming evidence that the purposes of the study are being achieved. To my knowledge, this is the first comprehensive experiment which, by actually checking results, year after year, has proved the use of current materials to be of definite help, not only in social studies, but in English, mathematics, science and many other subjects...
...three years that T have used current materials, I have sent out my classes feeling they were better prepared for factual, functional understanding of science in the world they would meet than any other classes I have...
...current-materials boys & girls reported that it was much easier to get their fathers and mothers to help them with their homework...