Should the U.S. help the states pay for public education? For ten years, off & on, Congress has talked about itbut has never done anything. Last week, with President Truman's new U.M.T. and draft proposals casting a somber glare over the debate, the Senate took up a federal-aid-to-education bill (S.472) again. This time the bill's backers brought up some new arguments.
In World War II, they reported, the Army & Navy rejected 659,392 men for "educational deficiency"enough for 40 combat divisions. Another 302,838 were drafted but classified as illiterate. The twelve states with the worst educational rejection records were all relatively...
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