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As I need not convince you, friends, the urban high school in this land has fallen upon evil days. The National Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education, sponsored by the Kettering Foundation, informs us that we must take arms against this sea of troubles.

The Commission has published a report which presumably will exert real reforming influence: The Reform of Secondary Education (McGraw-Hill, $7.95). Very candidly outlining the failures of American secondary schooling, the Commission makes 32 recommendations for improvement—not all of them of equal weight, and some of them dubious. But in general this report is sensible and healthy. It is more or less the consensus of 20 well known people well informed about the state of the schools. Some dissents on this point or that are included—among them the highly perceptive criticisms of Mr. Martin Mayer (who really should have been engaged to draw up the report, which is not well organized or very lucidly written).

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As I need not convince you, friends, the urban high school in this land has fallen upon evil days. The National Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education, sponsored by the Kettering Foundation, informs us that we must take arms against this sea of troubles.

The Commission has published a report which presumably will exert real reforming influence: The Reform of Secondary Education (McGraw-Hill, $7.95). Very candidly outlining the failures of American secondary schooling, the Commission makes 32 recommendations for improvement—not all of them of equal weight, and some of them dubious. But in general this report is sensible and healthy. It is more or less the consensus of 20 well known people well informed about the state of the schools. Some dissents on this point or that are included—among them the highly perceptive criticisms of Mr. Martin Mayer (who really should have been engaged to draw up the report, which is not well organized or very lucidly written).