Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next term Miss Alpenfels will teach 600 sophomores in three Chicago high schools. She is planning a textbook for the course. A University of Chicago attitude test will be given before and after the course, and a final one a year later. Results will be compared with tests given to students whose curriculum is the same except for anthropology. If the results seem successful, the course may be made general in Chicago schools...
YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT THE WORK OF USAF1(TIME, FEB. 21) DOES A SERVICE BY BRINGING TO THE MEN OF THE ARMED FORCES NEWS OF THE LATEST EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED. I REGRET THAT SPACE PREVENTED MENTION OF THE IMPORTANT ROLES PLAYED IN PREPARING OUR COURSES AND TEXTBOOKS BY CIVILIAN SCHOLARS AND EDITORS, TEXTBOOK PUBLISHERS, UNIVERSITIES, THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION AND ARMY, NAVY AND MARINE OFFICERS DOING EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE FIELD. GODFREY! THEY DESERVE THE CREDIT...
Announcement that its Textbook Loan Library is now open for circulation was made yesterday by Phillips Brooks House. The library furnishes a limited number of textbooks required for courses currently being given in the College, with concentration in the fields of Economics, French, and German. Elementary texts for courses in English, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, and Philosophy are also available...
Anonymous good-willers in Manitoba and Minnesota put up $1,000 as a prize for an "impartial" U.S.-Canadian history textbook. Object: to teach elementary and high-school students on both sides of the border the same versions of the same events, thus promote Canadian-U.S. understanding...
...Post] is constantly shaking from artillery firing on three sides of us and . . . we've been hearing heavy German concentrations land on the nearest village . . . since 4 a.m. . . . [You will get] an idea of the staff sergeant's enthusiasm when I say that he stopped reading his textbook only when our own batteries opened up on some Me-109s that were gyrating around overhead...