Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee published a textbook this summer and is experimenting with the new course this fall. In addition to the text--which has proven quite successful--the group is working to simplify classroom experiments and build up a supplementary film library. To provide extra reading matter for the exceptional physics student who now has virtually none available at his level, the Committee is beginning a one hundred and fifty volume paperback series...
Aiming to give first aid a new look, the American Red Cross last week began distributing a new edition of its First Aid Textbook (Doubleday; $1, or 75? in paper covers), completely rewritten for the first time since 1945.* Notable changes...
Huckleberry Finn is not a Ku Klux Klan pamphlet. To drop this book from the textbook list is a shortsighted educational policy. Surely this acknowledged classic presents life in terms universal enough to out-weigh its incidental provincial slants. Let the latter be considered in historical terms and not taken as a contemporary affront...
...began last week a modern adventure of man against the sky. The Air Force's aim: to suspend one man at 100,000 ft. for 24 hours and chart his reactions-body and psyche-against the textbook theories of life in space...
...Houston takes no interest in foreigners and their ways, and holds pretty much that the navel of the universe is in Texas, very likely in Houston itself. Like its postwar predecessors, it has doggedly opposed teaching little Houstonians anything about the United Nations. Last April it banned every textbook with even a hint of a one-world point of view, finally drove patient School Superintendent William Moreland into resigning (TIME, April 22). Last week it announced the latest phase of its crusade-a revision of the elementary-school social-studies curriculum that will keep Houston's younger generation safe...