Statement by United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath

STATEMENT * More than 342 million children and adul ts will be enrolled in the Nation's public and private schools and colleges during the 1952-53 academic year. Reporting the 1952-53 enrollment estimates in detail and interpreting them, Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, said, "Public and private elementary schools this year will have approximately 1,600,000 more pupils enrolled than last year. The increase in number of secondary school pupils will be 95,000." Commissioner McGrath said that the Nation would need 158,600 new teachers this fall to instruct additional numbers of pupils to be enrolled and to take care of normal turnover in teaching staff caused by teacher retirement, death, marriage, or change of position. Dr McGrath added that the 158,600 new teacher estimate did not take into consideration new teachers needed to replace substandard and emergency teachers, to relieve over- crowded classes and double sessions, or to enrich the curriculum by the addition of new subject fields. *By Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C., published in CTA Journal, 693 Sutter Street, San Francisco 2, California, October 1952, page 24. (California Teachers Association)