Schoolmart, Schoolview

P: A teacher hands her pupils stiff cards covered with numbered squares. She gives them a "choose-the-correct-answer" test in which they are to check the proper numbers. The test over, the teacher runs the cards through what looks like an adding machine. The cards emerge with a red mark in every proper square. Krexit enables teacher and pupils to see mistakes at a glance.

P: A teacher goes through the classroom with a Sight Meter in her hand. Its quivering needle shows in footcandles the amount of light in the room. If in any spot it registers less than ten footcandles the teacher should raise the shades or turn on the electric lights.

P: A teacher draws, traces, types or writes a lesson on a stencil. Fitting it to what resembles a big curved rubber stamp, she quickly turns out a batch of lesson sheets for the class, on the Multistamp.

P:A teacher finds the room stuffy, goes to the Austral Window, gently pushes it. Hung on a central pivot, the counter-weighted sash swing easily into one of half a dozen draftless positions.

P: A teacher finishes chalking sums on the Multi-Use Blackboard Fixture. The pupils step up, reverse the individual sections of the board, pull them out like easels, set to work painting, their work pinned to a cork surface.

Such up-to-date contrivances are by no means common in U. S. schools. But last week parents, teachers and school officials could visualize them as they beheld in Manhattan's big Port Authority Commerce Building an exposition of school-wares. Called Schoolmart and paired with a routine conference of pedagogs labeled Schoolview, the exposition was sponsored by the National Association of Public School Business Officials. Teachers College, New York University's School of Education and numerous high-sounding committees. This week 500 members of N. A. P. S. B. O. were to gather at Schoolmart for their 23rd annual convention.

Familiar-sounding facts presented once more to its public by Schoolmart and Schoolview last week: 3,000,000 children were denied schooling last winter; 1,000 schools closed; the nation's education budget was pared from two and one-quarter billions to one and three-quarters; one-quarter of the country's 247,000 public schools need modernizing. But pedagogs have taken hope. In 37 States school building has leaped 700%--$34,000,000 in the first quarter of this year as against less than $5,000,000 in the same period in 1933. And from Washington last week went word that 1934-35 school expenditures under PWA will total $160,603,032 of which $126,755,474 will be in the form of Federal loans and grants.

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