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CITIZENS LOOK AT THEIR SCHOOLS
in Community, State, and National Conferences on Education
MILLIONS of Americans are gathering togetlier in local and state conferences this fall to take a close look at their public schools. This Operation Education has been called the greatest grass-roots inventory of America's public school system ever made. The "little White House conferences" on education are all leading up to the big White House Conference on Education, November 28December 1, at which educators, civic leaders, and government officials will consider major school problems. On the basis of their studies and the results of state and territorial conferences, the President's Committee —
under the chairmanship of Neil H. McElroy — will make its report to President Eisenhower on the "significant and pressing problems in the field of education."
This program of educational studies and discussions was outlined by the President last year in his State -of-theUnion Message before the 83rd Congress. The national meeting in November will be the first ever called by a U. S. president on the subject of the nation's schools.
Some call the program primarily a
way of avoiding immediate action on the pressing problems of our schools. We already know enough about the crisis in education, they say. We have enough facts; we need immediate steps toward solutions; we need action, not discussion.
Others feel that only through a grass-roots program such as the President's can we find solid solutions. They point to Mr. McElroy's words:
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