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EXPLORATION OF CITIZENSHIP* Because of their mushrooming concern with problems of citizenship education, teachers and school administrators have an interest in the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth. For the stated objective of the conference, to be held the week of December 3, 1950, is "to consider how we can develop in children the mental, emotional, and spiritual qualities essential to individual happiness and to responsible citizen- ship." To carry out its challenging objective, the White House Conference has set out to: (1) Bring together in usable form pertinent knowledge related to the development of children and indicate areas in which further knowledge is' needed; (2) Examine the environment in which children are grow- ing up, with a view to determining its influence upon them; (3) Study the ways in which the home, the school, the church, welfare agencies, and other social institutions, individually and cooperatively, are serving the needs of children. #By Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. 0., published in the NEA Journal, Vol. 39, Number 6, September 1950, page 432.