Word: project
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better Learning reports on a project which has been in the works for four years: exposing secondary school pupils to current materials, a phrase which educators use to describe magazines, newspapers, radio recordings, and kindred study helps-as distinguished from textbooks. The book compares the progress of these students with similar groups which made little or no use of current materials...
...teachers who were in at the beginning of the experiment, became so enthusiastic about it that they devoted their own time to writing this handbook on the use of current materials for their fellow-teachers everywhere-and TIME Inc. is proud to have played a small part in their project...
...significant finding of the project was that timid, reticent, below-average students showed a much greater tendency to "come out of their shells," and join group activities and discussions; and far more chances presented themselves for above-average students to exercise leadership and responsibility. Both sides of the desk-teachers and students-profited by a much happier, more productive learning situation all around. Most important, the California project's gains were not won at the expense of traditional achievements...
Cynthia Williams '51 and Nancy Beaton '51, co-chairmen of the dormitory-commuter committee, are directing the project which seeks to induce more commuter participation in 'Cliffe activities and to speed up arrangements for making night facilities in dormitories available to commuters...
Visitors to the College for football weekends will receive four page "hospitality programs" listing restaurants, hotels, night clubs, and other entertainment, according to Robert F. Fuller '50, newly elected chairman of the College National Student Association chapter, which is sponsoring the project...