Education: Back to School

U.S. schools and colleges opened their doors last week to a record enrollment of 33,121,000. The nation's classrooms, badly crowded last year, were clogged with 418,000 more pupils than ever before. One reason for the record: colleges, which had feared a 60% drop when the G.I. Bill of Rights went out and the draft came in, lost fewer than 275,000 students 11%) under the present deferment policy.

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