1950's Education | What Educational TV Offers You

Pamphlet

By: Jack Mabley

Date: 1954

Source: Mabley, Jack. What Educational TV Offers You. Public Affairs Pamphlet no. 203. New York: The Public Affairs Committee, 1954.

About the Author: Jack Mabley (1915–) earned a degree from the University of Illinois in 1938. He was a columnist, reporter, and television editor with the Chicago Daily News from 1938 to 1961, and then a columnist and editor for the Chicago American and later the Chicago Tribune. In 2003, Mabley was a columnist for the Daily Herald, in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Introduction

The 1950s saw a tremendous expansion of television viewing. While some had already become leery of the potential negative effects of television, many had high hopes for the educational possibilities of the new technology. Here was a way for everyone to be able to access the best in...