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not permit any extensive amount of original research, and original research was not attempted except in areas where the existing information seemed entirely inadequate. The work of the staff did result, however, in a number of studies which present in convenient form a large amount of information bearing upon the status and problems of education in the United States.

The present volume is one of the studies prepared by the research staff. The statements and conclusions contained in it are those of the authors, and do not necessarily conform to those of the Committee. The findings of this study in preliminary form were considered by the Committee, however, in formulating the conclusions and recommendations that appear in its own report.

The study was initiated in June 1937, under the general supervision of Dr. Doak S. Campbell, Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Director of the Senior College, George Peabody College for Teachers. Dr. Frederick H. Bair, Superintendent of Schools, Bronxville, New York, took immediate responsibility for prosecution of the study in collaboration with Dr. Campbell, and devoted the summer of 1937 to the collection of basic information and the preparation of a preliminary report. After it became necessary for Doctors Campbell and Bair to return to their regular posts, Dr. Oswald L. Harvey of the staff of the Committee was assigned to the further prosecution of the study. He made an intensive review of the materials contained in the central files and office records of the Division of Education Projects of the Works Progress Administration and, in consultation with Doctors Campbell and Bair, was responsible for placing the study in final form for publication.

The data included in the volume are in general those available up to the end of 1937; in a few cases revised data available in June 1938 have been included. It was not possible to organize extensive field inquiries during the time available. The factual information used in the study has largely been obtained from records of the Works Progress Administration, from conferences with officials responsible for the various programs, and to a limited extent through inquiries addressed to educational officials throughout the country.

AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Much helpful assistance in the prosecution of this study was received from chief State school officers, other State and local educational officials, and State directors of the Works Progress Administration emergency education program, who responded to inquiries sent out in the summer of 1937 by the senior author.

Special acknowledgments are due to the officials of the Works Progress Administration, especially to those in the Division of Education Projects and the Division of Research, Statistics, and Records, for their assistance in providing material for use in this study.

Other Federal agencies, particularly the Office of Education, the National Resources Committee through its Library, and the Bureau of the Census, also provided valuable assistance.

Dr. C. Currien Smith, New York State College for Teachers, Albany, gave much assistance in the initial planning of the study and in the preparation of a preliminary report for consideration by the Advisory Committee on Education. Dr. Lynn A. Emerson, Professor of Industrial Education, Cornell University, served as a major consultant during the preparation of the preliminary report. The following members of the staff of the Committee also assisted in the preparation of a preliminary draft of the study: Grace P. Asserson, Clare W. Butler, Elaine Exton, Mary H. Fairbanks, and Eugenia Pope.

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