Education: The Private-School Question

Is there any place for private schools in the U.S. of 1951? The schools themselves are sure there is, but they admit that the question must be met. In the current issue of School and Society, the National Council of Independent Schools clambers into the ring, grapples with the question, wrestles five falls to a finish, and gives itself the decision.

Are some private schools no better than gyp joints? Yes, sighs the council, both shoulders to the mat. "The sporadic growth of fly-by-night institutions without standards of any kind confronts independent schools...

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