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Word: projects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief period of four days this summer, the Graduate School of Education sponsored a project of great significance for the future of education--the use of closed-circuit television as a medium of instruction...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Closed-Circuit Television | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

...project was a limited one, and was concerned mainly with the uses of television in preparing elementary and secondary school teachers. A microwave relay system was set up to transmit actual classroom situations from Weeks Junior High School in Newton, Massachusetts, to the third floor lounge in Littauer Center at Harvard, where teachers-in-training were assembled to observe the various classes in action...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Closed-Circuit Television | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

...chief faculty opposition comes from fears of technological unemployment, of the mechanization of education, and of George Orwell's 1984 atmosphere. As one observer of the Education School's project said, "If this medium is ever used by administrators or their "flunkies" for the purpose of observing and thereby controlling a teacher or his material, it will be a horrible blight on education and freedom of enquiry...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Closed-Circuit Television | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

...Caroni from the mill-to-be, the workmen, trucks and power shovels of a French construction firm were clearing a site for a government-owned hydroelectric plant that will provide 143,000 kw. for steelmaking, plus another 157,000 for the region's future industrial growth. The project's total wattage is twice what the entire capital city of Caracas now uses, but less than one-tenth of the Caroni's unharnessed potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Backland Bonanza | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...year-old student at a high school in Quitman, Ga., Farm Boy Wesley Patrick got a class project-the care of a gilt and a boar. He did so well that he won second prize at a local swine show. Much encouraged. Patrick asked his vocational agriculture teacher how he might get into full-time farming. Advised Teacher Drawdy Willis: "Develop and expand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Develop & Expand | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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