Richard W. Smith, in Change School TV (Dee.-Jan. 1978/79), NEW Tower, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801.
Educational television was launched with great expectations 25 years ago, prompted in part a shortage of grade school and college level teachers. Today, both closed-circuit TV in the classroom and instruc- tional TV intended for home audiences have yet to catch hold.
Its supporters contend that the new technology was sabotaged by teachers' unions in the grade schools and by the intellectual snobbery...