Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...textbook market for adult education. Educational concern for special opportunity for the gifted child-and the unusually backward-has meant a proliferation of textbooks on the same subject at different levels. Holt now has four college freshman mathematics texts replacing what was once a single staple freshman algebra. From teaching electronic computers what to do man is learning new ways to teach himself: Doubleday and Harcourt this year published textbooks utilizing novel computer techniques to teach children subjects such as English...
...readymade market in textbooks in the decade ahead, U.S. publishers are hard at work trying to anticipate the next step in education. They are keeping a wary eye on teaching machines, now in the testing stage. Harcourt, Brace spent $60,000 building their own, but junked it. Explains Harcourt President William Jovanovich: "We decided it wasn't our field, but we felt we ought to give it a try." If teaching machines are perfected and catch on, the chances are good the publishing industry will soon be selling them too-or putting out books to teach teachers...
...shortage of teachers in junior high school is extremely severe, Conant says. Recognizing the fact that junior high school classes are the hardest to teach, he calls for at least 50 instructors for every 1,000 pupils. He also urges that more teachers decide to pursue their careers in junior high schools, instead of using them as a springboard for posts in senior high schools or colleges...
...Harvard Essien-Udom is also working on a study of the African elite that emerged between 1900 and World War II. He plans eventually to return to West Africa, hopefully to Nigeria, and to teach in one of the universities there. Although he does not intend to enter politics, he does hope to help work for a united Africa; an Africa that can develop its resources and still preserve "the tradition and wisdom passed on to us by our ancestors...
...business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community now are forging a destiny of their own. Minds wuthlessly depwived for centuwies are finding valid art forms...