Statement by United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath to the New York Times

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Statement# The blunt fact is that unless we do some thing drastic-and immediately-to relieve the teacher shortage a whole generation of American boys and girls will be short-changed in their right to obtain a fundamental education. The thinner you stretch your available teaching staff to cover the unprecedented and inexorably increasing enrollments in our public schools, the less chance there is for a teacher to do a competent job of teaching. It is the child who inevitably suffers. And when the child suffers, the Nation suffers. *By Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C., on "Teacher Shortage, " to New York Times, January 1952.