Over 60% of the 15 million U.S. veterans of World War II have not finished high school. The G.I. Bill of Rights is ready to help pay their way through school and college, but it is not much help in the case of the G.I. who wants to go back to high school.
In most U.S. cities, battle veterans of Europe and the Pacific who need a few more credits to enter college must return to regular teen-age classrooms. Several cities—Houston, Baltimore, Washington —are about to do something to correct the situation; Detroit and Philadelphia already have.
The Detroit school board set up...