Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason high-school physics courses are often so bad, says Zacharias, is that their textbooks are largely based on physics as it was known 50 years ago. Though new knowledge is added in revised editions, it is merely tacked onto basic material that is still out of date. The books overemphasize practical applications, concentrate on macrophysics, such as Archimedes' principle, to the neglect of microphysics, which has become all-important with increased knowledge of the atom. By fall, Zacharias hopes to have ready the first part of an experimental textbook that will concentrate on basic laws and include...
...late Prof. Frank Abbott Magruder, whose textbook, American Government, was also banned in Houston...
There has been some agitation among freshman lately for a mass book-burning of Language and Informal Logic, the textbook General Education A used just this one year and intends to drop. Although the volume was panned--with considerable justification--in a recent Atlantic Monthly article, no riots over it are expected. General Education A does meet a more subtle protest, however, in widespread apathy towards its bi-weekly round of reading and papers. More words are written in less time for Gen Ed than perhaps any other course in the University...
General Education A should not, however, be content merely with textbook revision, since many of its problems lie in the structure of the courses's reading. After a freshman works with the longer and more challenging books of his other studies, the literary forkfuls Gen. Ed. uses as fodder for themes seem uninspiring...
...Pure Capitalism? In 1949 the board banned Magruder's standard textbook, American Government, because two members objected to the paragraph beginning: "The United States is called a capitalistic country, but it does not have pure capitalism. It has capitalism subject to increasing government control as our manner of living becomes more complex . . ." In 1953 it fired Deputy Superintendent George Ebey, not because it could find any proof that he had once been proCommunist, as one citizen charged, but because he had become "controversial." In the course of an investigation as a result of the Ebey case, the National Education...