Washington County Closed-Circuit Educational Television Project

[3] From its first year in use, Brish considered the project a success; however, he emphasized that it was not a replacement of traditional methods, telling a teachers' conference that "Television is not a teaching process.

[4] A large variety of subjects were taught over television, from remedial reading and arithmetic to art and music to advanced mathematics, biology, and chemistry.

[2] There were forty-five public schools in Washington County altogether,[2] and by the time the project concluded in 1961, all of them were connected to the closed-circuit system.

[7] The people who ran the technical aspects of the telecasts and operated the television cameras were generally students from local junior colleges.

[5] Subsequently, the county changed its way of doing audiovisual education, by switching from a closed-circuit cable system to the use of video tape recordings that would be shown in every participating school.