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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME Inc.'s participation in this project came about when Frank B. Lindsay, chief of secondary education for the California State Department of Education, asked if we would supply copies of our magazines, MARCH OF TIME Forum films, MOT radio recordings and related study materials for the experiment. As a result, although TIME Inc. had no say in directing the study, 2,013 students in 15 California high schools (chosen to give a wide variety of localities and economic backgrounds) used TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and other publications for their basic school assignments, textbooks for collateral reading...
Although this is the first time that our publications have been used in a single, formal, large-scale project like California's, they have been used for many years in various aspects of U.S. education. TIME Inc.'s Educational Bureau, for instance, has provided, in addition to our publications, teaching aids (e.g., the TIME Current Affairs Test, monthly quizzes on the news, maps, charts) to schools and colleges all over the U.S.This material has been used extensively, especially in journalism, science, social studies and English classes...
...Scientists working on the Los Alamos project in New Mexico...
Great Issues Project...
Dickey's pet project is the Great Issues course which is required of all seniors. Designed to bring the foundation knowledge of the first three college years into sharp focus on the great national and international problems of the world. Great Issues offers lecturers like Archibald MacLeish. Lewis Mumford, and President Conant. It gives the men of Dartmouth a common cultural experience to match the enthusiastic social solidarity fostered by for years of living and working together in Hanover...