New Britain herald., 1922-12-08
EDUCATIONAL WORK
 PROPOSALS PLANNED.
Claim Informed Leadership Is Needed to Deal With Problem

Washington. Dec. S--Assimilation of the foreign-born removal of illit- eracy. adjustment of inequalities in educational opportunities. and incul- cation Of proper ideals concerning the American form of government. arc paramount problems which the edu- catonal forces of the country must meet. in the opinion of Commissioners of Education Tigert as expressed to- day in his annual report.
 What we do or fail to do in pub lie education" he said, will largely determine the future Of our experi- ment in democracy"
 Informed leadership in dealing with these problems, the report declared, is needed more now than ever before. N was pointed out that while some e'< the states, through years of expe- rience and consecutive efforts of trained leaders have accomplished notable achievements in various phases of educational theory and practice, other states arc still seeking the answers to many of the same questions. and laboriously and at great expense exploring ground that has already been carefully charted.
 To Promote Cause.
 It is the work of the bureau of education, it was said, to promote the cause of education throughout the country, to disseminate such informal ton, and to seek interstate cooper ation. Much of the costly duplica- ton and experiment was declared to have been saved the bureau by mak- ing available to all the states the eN- periences and achievements of the most progressive and most highly en- dowed, as far as its resources en- able it.
 Substantially increased support for the bureau, as conservative invest ment. was recommended by MT. IT. gert, in the light of the service its activities render the whole popula- ton. He said the staff was so linn tied, through lack of means, that IL was impossible for its specialists to give full attention to more than small part of the perplexing ques- tions upon which school authorities seek advice. Another handicap was said to the small amount available for publications. School Life, the monthly publication of the bureau, was necessarily discontinued for all most a year because of the failure of congress to agree upon measure for the publication of periodicals by gov ernment bureaus. I Each State To Work.
 For each state to maintain its own system of education, adopting it's own methods of organization, administra- tion and instruction and determining for itself the amount and character of instruction which shall be pro- vided for it's children, the commis- sioner said is entirely proper since sthe geni,s of the American people wiil probably never accept the idea of sa centralized national system of pub lie, schools. The bureaus work, he pointed out, was to collect statistics and facts on the various systems and fos publish the information so that educators in every part of the lana will know what progress has been made in education.
 To make its service more effective, the functions of the bureau are divid- ed into four parts-field service, re- search and investigation of special problems, educational surveys, and dissemination of information. During the past year Al surveys were made, including a state system of public schools, a state system of higher edu-- cation, 31 of higher educational ln- stitutions, four of city public school systems, three of city school build ings, and one& of county system of schools. Some of these necessitated from four to eight weeks study by a. corps of experts. The resulting recommendations led to substantial improvements in the systems studied.
 One of the important tasks of the year was undertaken by a force or 19s persons sent to Alaska to help the people of the territory to earn a better livelihood by the reindeer industry to give them medical atten- ton. to relieve Restitution among them and to maintain schools for them and their children. The distri- button of reindeer among the natives and the use of the enterprise as the form of industrial education best fitted to the races inhabiting the un- timbered regions of Alaska remains under the supervision of the bureau of education.
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