Word: textbook
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that year was also focused on the University's tenure policy, which the Student Council said was too rigid. The tutoring schools, lingering on since the scandals of the past year, finally died. Publishing companies brought suit against some of the major schools, whose published course notes infringed on textbook copyrights. And the administration made any student who used the services of a tutoring school subject to disciplinary action...
...gadget carried no human passengers. But as it eased its complex cargo to a soft landing on the moon's Ocean of Storms last week, the U.S. spacecraft, Surveyor I, moved man himself closer than ever to a landing on his nearest planetary neighbor. In an exercise of textbook perfection, Surveyor settled down only a few miles from its planned target; its TV camera panned across the lunar landscape and high-quality pictures streamed back to earth. For a program that had languished for years in exasperating delay, expanding expenses and mounting criticism, the very first payoff was perfection...
...program offers not only TIME at special school-subscription rates, as a "textbook" on contemporary affairs, but also free monthly classroom materials in the form of guides, vocabulary tests, wall maps, charts, graphs and the annual Current Affairs Test. Projected for 1966-67 are introductions to the Supreme Court, religions of the world, Red China, international alliances, Canada, and space. There will also be two news brush-up quizzes. We hope that these teaching aids, like TIME itself, help the student develop a sharper perception of his world...
Instead of finding the kind of teacher who seeks what Harvard College Dean John Monro calls "a mind-to-mind confrontation" with students, undergraduates often stare across 30 rows of seats at a listless scholar reading from his own textbook and begrudging the time spent away from his esoteric research. In smaller classes, students are likely to meet some harassed teaching assistant absorbed in his specialized graduate studies, sometimes not even teaching in his own sphere of knowledge. "We have sought out ability with football quarterbacks, we are beginning to do it with executives and musicians, but we haven...
...Robert C. Wilson. Norman P. Ross, who has been editor of TIME-LIFE Books, was elected a vice president and director of educational research and development. The new board elected Craig T. Senft as a vice president. He will also continue as president of the Silver Burdett Co., a textbook publishing subsidiary of Time Inc., which now becomes a division of the new enterprise...