How Education Is Faring

While elementary-school enrolment has declined during recent years, high-school enrolment has shown amazing growth. College enrolment dropped off quite sharply last year and the year before, but is regaining some of its losses the current year. The teaching-load has grown much heavier each year, particularly in the high school, at a time when the conditions have called for much more active work in adjusting the school to the current demands. The enrichment which has been added to the curriculum of the schools in recent decades has been sacrificed in many places. A reverse trend is noticeable this year. Colleges are doing a better job of adapting their work to the social needs of the individual student. Thechers' salaries have been cut to the level of fifty years ago in many places, but the present year shows some improvement. College techers have sacrificed probably as heavily as others. Annual public-school expenditures have dropped about 22 per cent in five years; colleges, a little more if buildings are included; when not included, the decrease in college expenditures is only about 10 percent. Two bright spots are discernible: students are more earnest, and institutions more co-operative

Curriculum · Demographic economics · Economics · Medical education · Pedagogy · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Work (physics) · Demography · Education Systems and Policy · Engineering · Medicine · Psychology