Television systems for in-school teaching

The teaching-by-television experiment now being conducted in Hagerstown, Maryland, under the joint auspices of Electronic Industries Association, the Fund for the Advancement of Education, and the Washington County School District has been described in considerable detail.1 The early success of this 5-year experiment, which now encompasses 8 schools, with 6,000 pupils, and which eventually will cover all of Washington County, with its 48 schools and 18,000 pupils, is being watched carefully by all those concerned with improving our educational techniques.2 The plant provided by the Chesapeake and Potomac Bell Telephone Company to link the studio with the schools and the details of the well-equipped studio have been the subjects of separate discussions. This paper will describe the ¿in-school¿ or ¿receiving¿ portion of the Hagerstown facilities and also will consider possibilities for the future.