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and specialized off-campus classes offered by State universities and other
institutions of higher education Many of these institutions offer both credit
and noncredit correspondence courses at college or secondary level. Federally-
aided programs of vocational education in 1949-50 enrolled 2,116,337 people in
evening and part-time classes. It is estimated that over 30 million adults,
more than one out of every four in the United States, are engaged in some form
of educational effort.
Special Education
Federal funds have aided the development of special educational services
to exceptional children, such as those physically handicapped, mentally retarded,
socially maladjusted. Special equipment and programs help children with speech
and hearing and visual handicaps, crippled, cerebral-palsied, cardiac, and
delicate children. Children so handicapped physically that they cannot be removed
from their homes may be served by a bedside instructor in many cities. A
few cities provide special schools or classes for markedly gifted children on
a part- or full-time basis, while more school systems attempt to provide enrich-
ment for these pupils in the ordinary elementary and secondary schools
Further emphasizing the effort to equalize opportunity, we note that in
1949-50 school buses transported children to and from school, to the number
daily of almost 7 million, equal in number to more than one-third the population
of Yugoslavia. This helps to provide schools equal to the best in the cities-
for children on farms.
Education in the United States is a big business. With an average annual
expenditure (-exclusive of capital outlay and interest) of 0228 per pupil in
daily public school attendance, the American people spent -6.9 billion in 1951-52
for public elementary and secondary reducation. They spent an additional $1.9
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