Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-23

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are going to have to pay more.
nual minimum accepted by leading
educators is $4,000 a year. At pres
ent the average salary in 10 States
is less than $1,000 year which, or
year-'round basis, is $40 a week
DR.. Benjamin w. Frazier. special
list for teacher education in the
Office of Education, said that while
there have been encouraging in
creases in dollars paid teachers nc
more than half of the elementary
school teachers have as much pur-
chasing power as they had in l941.
I'VE can always get enough schpo
teachers by lowering standards" hi
said. But # we want real teachers
we will have to pay for them" Or
the question of standards he re.
marked:
"A half dozen Western States &C.
cept high school graduates as ele'
mentary school teachers. In con-
trast, 16 States require college de.
grees for elementary teachers"
A study by the National Educa.
ton Association covering four fifths
of the total college enrolment shows
that this year only 1884 college
students are completing studies tf
meet the standard requirements fol
elementary school teachers. This
number is 70 per cent of the num-
Der completing such studies in 1941
| A more favorable showing is
made by those completing college
training to become high schoo
teachers. The number for 1948 is
34,O71, or los per cent Of the 1914
total. Traditionally, of course, high
school teachers fare better thar
elementary school teachers in both
salary and prestige.
Shortage in Lower Grades
! 1t is interesting to note that this
year the number of men completing
their studies to teach physical edu'
cation in the high schools is 1853
or 223 per cent of the 1941 figure
This field has attracted a larg'
number of CTS who have turned
to teaching as a career.
But add together the number!
completing college studies for ele'
mentary and high school teaching
and you get just few more thar
$4,000. For normal replacement
without taking into account thu
number of substandard teacher!
with emergency certificates, some
where between $4,000 and 90,00(
teachers are needed annually.
A report by the Citizens Fedora
Committee on Education, published
by the Office of Education last Oc.
tober, called attention to the fact
that the six unsupported teacher
education institutions in Illinois
graduated only lo4 elementary
school teachers that year. The re.
port added:
1T is estimated that some six OF
seven thousand more elementary
teachers will be needed in the State
over the next five or six years.
"At the present time" according
to the Office of Education, "probabl,
the greatest shortages Of teacher
are in the kindergarten and lowe
primary grades and in rural one
teacher schools" And 1t Is here
that the children who are now in
fants will start their education.
Come now TO the problem O
housing and equipping the schools
Here again the need will not b.
spread evenly over the country
Washingtons congested condition.
will not be duplicated all over thu
country. No doubt there will b
areas with greater problems thar
those of the District, and also SOM
with school buildings able to Absorb
the impending increases without
adding a classroom.
High School Problem
But according to Ray L. Hamon
chief Of the school housing section
of the Office of Education, there
are some communities and some
whole States not able to provide
the school facilities they need"
A number of State government
have provided funds to help com
munities within their borders built
needed schools. But there are State
which lack the resources to d.
this. A campaign for Federal ait
has started already.
A survey has shown that to buile
the public elementary and secondar!
schools needed now would take ar
outlay of $500, 100000. DR.. Hamor
suspects there are some anticipated
needs covered by that figure.
But" he added, IF the money
were available now and work was
started at once on this program, the
schools would be filled by the time
they were built" There is not ever
guess available on building need.
for the current baby crop, according
to DR.. Hamon.
The largest expenditure for schoo
buildings in any one year in oul
history was about S500,000,00O II
1925, when the World War 1 babe!
we're crowding the schools. The
same space built then would cos
about 81 100000, 600 today. The est,
mated present needs, if built at thu
1925 rate, would take more than 81,
years to provide.
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