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OCR Page 1 of 4STATEMENT*
Slightly more than a year ago, at the request of superin-
tendents of schools in cities of more than 200,000 population,
I arranged in cooperation with them a conference on the theme,
"Why Do Boys and Girls Drop Out of School, and What Can We Do
About It?" Universal mobilization for national defense is much
more urgent now than it appeared to be a year ago, and yet the
theme of last year's conference is as important now as it was a
year ago. Those directing educational programs in the armed forces
along with civilian educators are agreed that before entering the
armed forces every American youth should get the best education
he can and should stay in school as long as he can. Probably the
greatest contribution American high schools can make to the problems
we now face would be to retain more youth in high school through
graduation and to provide appropriate educational programs for them.
I hope, therefore, that. this second conference will stay close to
the theme of the first one.
A year ago it was apparent that the school systems you
represent were reducing school dropouts and improving the adjustment
#Statement prepared by Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of
Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D.C., and read by
J. Dan Hull at Meeting of Superintendents of Large City Schools,
Chicago, Illinois, February 5, 1951.
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