Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matter of Economics. To the astonishment of many aviation experts, the CAB chose to pass over past safety and maintenance violations to concentrate on economic questions. The theory, as outlined by one CABman, sounded like a textbook social worker's solution to juvenile delinquency: the nonskeds' financial hardships have spawned slipshod maintenance practices. So the CAB was looking for signs of financial health and was content to take FAA's word that the applicants satisfied safety requirements. But such assurances from the FAA are hardly reassuring; it had said before their disastrous crashes that Imperial and President...
...where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan for building a first-rate printing plant in Tehran, staffed by the newly trained graduating class of an orphan asylum. Out of this grew a healthy new Iranian textbook industry...
...Textbook Shortage. Until lately, texts have consisted mostly of J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit, the writings of Marx and Lenin, assorted serious explanations of Communism by authorities, and a range of less scholarly books down to paperbacks with scary titles and bloody hammers and sickles on the covers. Established textbook publishers are now beginning to enter the field with professional treatment. (TIME Inc.'s Silver Burdett will publish The Meaning of Communism this winter...
...China. During World War II Yale drafted him to help establish its "blitz" language program, which crammed U.S. soldiers with conversational Chinese in four months. Many of the high schools that have introduced Chinese have done so under Fenn's prodding-and most of them use the textbook developed at Yale...
There is a definite place for the science lecture, particularly in the treatment of the concepts, such as force and mass, which are generally dismissed in a one-sentence definition in the texts. But there is an equally definite place for the thorough textbook and the small section meeting to clarify confusing points in it. The teaching of the sciences would probably be improved if the rigid lecture system were modified to put more emphasis on the section meeting...