Article by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, How the Office of Education Can Help You
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OCR Page 1 of 9HOW THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION CAN HELP YOU
by
Earl J. McGrath*
U. S. Commissioner of Education
Federal Security Agency
At no time in our history has there been such a pressing need
for educational leadership. Yet if school administrators are to give
effective leadership, they must have the tools to do their jobs. And
research surely tops the list of basic tools.
Were I to try to state in one sentence what function the U. S.
Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, performs for you, I. should
say that it helps you by making the basic tools available. Facts about
educational developments are searched out, analyzed, and dispatched to
you--by way of your State departments of education, your professional
organizations, and your own local systems In addition, the Office helps
you by diffusing, information about education directly to the American
people.
At best, it is difficult to keep up with the rapidly developing
information that we schoolmen must have in order to give adequate service.
Education has become one of America's biggest businesses. Approximately
32 million children and youth are enrolled in our educational institutions,
and the annual expenditure for education is in excess of seven billion
dollars. Yet size and expenditure, large as they are, do not begin to
reveal the growing complexity of the character of education today. There
is the key question of curriculum, for example. The curriculum is being
*Article published in School Management, Vol. 19, No. 9, pp. 2, 8-10,
April 1950 issue.
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