Education: Public Education, 1956

The National Education Association gave out its annual statistics on the growth and needs of the nation’s public-school system. With 1,197,000 more pupils than last year, the U.S. now has a shortage of 180,000 teachers and 120,000 classrooms. There are 840,000 students getting only part-time schooling and 80,000 teachers without standard certificates. The most de pressing figure of all: partly because of low salaries, 97,000 teachers will drop out of the profession this year.