DURING the school year, TIME takes on a special meaning--and use--for more than 5,000 teachers and their students in the U.S., Canada and 23 other countries. As classes resume this fall, these teachers will be enrolling their students in the TIME Education Program, our classroom service that makes TIME, plus specially prepared teaching aids and testing materials, available to high schools and colleges from September through May.

Since the first issue in 1923, TIME has been an aid to educators and an important part of their curriculum, and never more so than today, when, as teachers tell us, each week's news is so much a part of what they teach, whatever the subject. The way we organize the news into as many as 24 different departments helps meet the special needs of social-studies teachers, as well as those in English, journalism, speech and art. The NATION and WORLD sections, for example, serve as a weekly text of current history, the basis for classroom discussions and reports. Virtually every department becomes a composition aid and a source for theme topics. And our full-color reproductions of paintings find their way into art classes and onto bulletin boards.

The supplementary materials sent to teachers enrolled in the program are designed to help them broaden and enliven their classes. One of the most popular of these aids--the collection of covers that have appeared on TIME during the summer--will shortly be going out to teachers enrolling for the 1965-66 school year. Other aids scheduled to follow will include background studies on the United Nations on its 20th anniversary, space, Viet Nam, civil rights and world religions. As events dictate, we shall also be sending extras during the school year, such as maps, charts and special reports.

An important part of our classroom service is a monthly testing program. Beginning with a 50-question Vacation Review Quiz in September, and ending with a Year-End Review in May, the program includes regular quizzes in intervening months, plus the widely used annual TIME Current Affairs Test in January. Based on a year's events, this 100-question test was taken last year by more than 1,000,000 students.

TIME plus the tests and teaching aids make up a comprehensive and stimulating program designed to help bring today's world into sharper focus in the classroom. Teachers who wish additional information about the TIME Education Program may write: TIME Inc. Education Department, Radio City, P.O. Box 666, New York, N.Y. 10019.

SINCE the inception of our LAW section in 1963, the consultant to the staff has been Professor Marvin E. Frankel of Columbia University Law School. Now, with mingled regret and pride, we are losing him. Last week President Johnson named Frankel to a federal judgeship in the Southern District of New York.

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