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...school systems have arranged with Harvard a joint project called the "School and University Program for Research and Development." The main objectives of this program, better known as "SUPRAD," are to improve the quality of education, to promote greater efficiency in the use of time and space in the schools, and to find a means of attracting and holding highlyqualified persons in both teaching and administrative positions...
...use of these "lay readers" is expected to make possible the assignment of a larger number and a greater variety of writing exercises and to enable the teacher to try out new devices of composition instruction...
...studies form the subjects for a "case method" technique of instruction, which, it is hoped, will substantially change a junior high school student's approach to contemporary national issues from simple information-giving recitation to "complex patterns of critical evaluation." The SUPRAD investigators hope to accomplish this by the use of special materials and by "probing-questioning Socratic discussion...
Warm Peninsula is a comedy, of course, and often funny. But the humor is in an aged gag-line form. (Iris Floria, an aged silent-screen siren, admits that she still takes milk baths. "But milk is so expensive now that I use Starlac!') The plot does not contain an intrinsically comic situation...
Zacharias will devote particular attention to the use of films and other audio-visual aids in group instruction. The use of such devices in the teaching of a mathematical science is "quite new and revolutionary," according to Edwin H. Sauer, lecturer on Education...