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Since the electronic game was introduced on Sept. 3, 678 schools in 45 states have signed up through the TIME Education Program. Each participating institution is sent an instruction manual and a diskette containing dozens of questions. Once a week a teacher or student simply makes a local telephone call and automatically receives, free of charge, the week's quiz. Students who score high and correctly answer the bonus history question are allowed to enter their names on a computerized national honor roll. In addition, highscoring schools will become eligible for a total of $10,000 in scholarship money provided...
Prior to its launching, CoverMaker was extensively tested in a yearlong pilot program that involved 80 teachers and 2,000 students in 50 schools. The response from both groups was overwhelmingly positive. "The students love it," reports Georgia Lee, an American-history teacher at Captain Shreve High School in Shreveport, La. "They come in before school, during lunch, after school. Some of them were students who didn't even know where the library was before CoverMaker...
Project Manager David McGowan found his experience as an educator invaluable while helping to develop the program. "I would have loved to have something like this when I was a teacher," says McGowan, who taught social science at Manhattan's Collegiate School from 1984 to 1986. "The game actually makes taking a test enjoyable." Notes TIME Public Affairs Director Steve Cohen: "High school students are very important to TIME. We hope to get them interested in the news and to familiarize them with the range of topics available in the magazine...
...know I went to school back in the sensitive, touchy-feely Seventies, when America was weak and terrorists pushed us around and our president let us call him by a nickname. I even called my fifth-grade teacher "Marty." But I appreciated assignments that taught "critical thinking" along with "values." That was when our teacher didn't tell us what he thought about the Wednesday Afterschool Special until after we'd all discussed cheating at sports, a friend dying, exploding Ford Pintos or alternative energy sources...
Much of Augustine's energy as a bishop was spent resisting heretics and schismatics, which led him to insist on the hierarchical church as the authoritative teacher and sole channel of salvation. Though this view later buttressed papal powers, Augustine defied Pope Zosimus when the Pontiff tolerated Pelagius, whose theology was so optimistic that humanity scarcely seemed to need a Saviour...