Milford chronicle., 1947-11-14
Washington Letter
CPS MAKE SWELL ACADEMIC
RECORDS
Il InnnS
j. L. Jones

Washington, D. c., November-A
million and a half veterans have
gone to school this year.
The influence of the CT Student
on the college and university cam
pus has raised the records and
standards of our educational sys-
tenn.
Our CT Students are enrolled un-
der the CT Bill of Rights, ana their
Importance is largely due to their
military experiences-also their
average is three years older than
non-veteran students on the same
educational level. And it is a plea
sure to report in this Letter to
Family Newspapers throughout the
Nation that the veterans are get
ting higher marks than nOn-veter-
ans. Ordway Tead, president of the
Board of Higher Education of New
York City tells US: married veter-
ans make better academic records
than the unmarried; veterans with
children top all the campus aver
ages for marks and honOrs."
John Dale Russell, director of the
Division of Higher Education, U. S.
Office of Education, refers with ma
tural pride to- the fact that the Uni
ted States is the only country in the
World which offers universal sec
ondary education and he observes
that in view of mounting enrolment
totals the situation raises the practi-
| cal question as to whether some
! form of college for all is the logi-
cal next step. And members of the
staff of the presidents Commission
on Higher Education direct atten-
tion to the present trend which is
moving forward so steadily that by
1950-51 colleges and universities
will have to double their physical
facilities. The turn in events indi-
Gates that the total needed to run
higher education will soon reach
billion dollars a year, which is
twice the all-time high expense for
salaries, administration, etc., in the
current fiscal year.
A critical teachers shortage is
today one of the major problems in
American education and our educa-
tional affairs are laying stress at
this time on the fact that during
the war the draft, the lure of we'll
paying jobs, and the rising costs ol
living led $4,000 American teachers
to desert the classrooms. AS a re.
suit it is estimated that this year
million children are receiving an in
ferior education because of the in
adequate supply of teachers and the
loss of the best trained instructors
|, On the edge of the National Capi
! tai, Harold B. Benjamin, Dean o
the School of Education of the Uni
9 versity of Maryland, underscore'
: the present shortage of quality al
: we'll as in number, in the teachin,
= profession. "The foremost DANCE
;. confronting us in the educationa
World today is not that we will pa,
teachers too little, but that we will
!, fail to recruit and train teacher
= worthy of the best professional sal
6 aries" say Mr.. Benjamin, who ex
4 plains that even though there is
= shortage of certified teachers w
still will have a shortage of pro
: perly educated teachers to certifi
@ cate" This is a very importan
: statement in view of the fact tha
a the University of Maryland ranks a
v one of the Nations tops. eve hav
/ jet-and-rocket propelled educa
l. tional Job to be done. and we ar
still selecting and educating teach
a ers on a buckboard-and-br bronco ba
l. SIS" observed Mr.. Benjamin.