In the national headquarters of the American Federation of Teachers in Chicago, President Jerome Davis last week tacked up a map of U. S. "intellectual slums." The Federation had just finished a shocked inspection of the nation's blighted school areas, where the generation growing up is getting little schooling or none at all. It found some 3,300,000 children of school age (5 to 17) not enrolled in any school, found even in relatively well-off Wisconsin 55,000 youngsters who get less than 90 days of schooling a year (the U. S. norm is 200 days). Most squalid intellectual slums are in the...
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