Educational Implications of the Negro College Radio Program

During the past year the meeting of the American Association of School Administrators was a significant educational conference is its explanation of the decisive rdle of the school in the war effort of the country. Yet the was not actually held nor did members of the association attend panel discussions in regional cities. crisis in transportation dictated that the organized administrators of the country forego the social fellowship which in previous years had helped attract schoolmen from every comer of the country. However, the very theme of the proposed meeting, The Role of the Nation's Schools in Winning the War and Earning the Peace, suggested the imperative nature of the discussions scheduled. An impressive list of speakers had been arranged. And so, undaunted by the cancellation of the actual, gathering of delegates, the directors of the group turned to one of the latest agencies of public education to achieve a meeting of minds. met by radio.' This convention of the air by a leading educational organization emphasized the increasingly important r'le which radio has come to play in public education. Radio broadcasters have long contended that their medium is a powerful instrument for education, but, though many radio stations were founded by colleges, educators themselves have had reservations about the integrity and legitimacy of the educational broadcast as it has been handled by commercial broadcasters. process of adjusting the two points of view, however, is apparently progressing, for the use of radio by the school administrators and by other educational groups3 as an integral part of their programs is increasing. Efforts to utilize the vast coverage of the typical radio station for the dissemination of educational information are graduating from the informal and' random schooling of commercial presentations to the organized and integrated broadcasts of schools, colleges and similar academic units.4 Attendance at the Fourteenth Institute for Education by Radio, sponsored by Ohio State University, included more than 700 representatives of schools, colleges, the govern

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