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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ing more knowledge tomore students than ever before in history. Next thereis the problem of quality. Schools have a new mathe-matics, a new chemistry, a new physics, a new biologyand are about to have a new history. All these dis-ciplines require more teaching of teachers, as well asspeeded-up and enriched schedules for youngsters. Compounding the problem is the fact that pupilsare increasing at a faster rate than teachers at everylevel. We now have about 2,350,000 primary andsecondary school teachers and will need two millionmore by 1975. At the college level, an anticipated 50per cent increase in enrollment in the next decadecalls for a significant increase in faculty. Finally, theres the problem of costs. With an outlayof roughly $48 billion this year, education on thenational level has become an industry second only todefense in cost. In most communities more than halfof the dollars collected through local taxes are spenton education. Fortunately, an explosion in educational tech-
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nology — in part based on the expanded use of com-munications — promises to help schools stretch theirteaching talents to meet the rising tide of students.Schools have to admit that the electronic age ishere, said Harold Howe, U.S. Commissioner ofEducation, and that there are many ways of com-municating and of handling information. Basically, the aim of the new educational tech-nology is twofold: (1) To make resources go farther;in other words, increase the effectiveness of existingteachers, libraries and experts in various fields; and(2) To improve the quality of the educational experi-ence; educators have already found that the newteaching aids linked by communications often canget more across to more students — more vividlyand with deeper retention — in less time. Committee urges innovation A broad-scale program that emphasizes the multi-sensory nature of the learning process was outlineda few months ago by the Committee for EconomicDevelopments subcommittee on efficiency a

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