THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION FLOYD W. REEVES, Chairman W. ROWLAND ALLEN EDMUND DES. BRUNNER OSCAR L. CHAPMAN ELISABETH CHRISTMAN GORDON R. CLAPP ERNEST G. DRAPER ALICE EDWARDS HENRY ESBERG 1 MORDECAI EZEKIEL GEORGE L. GOOGE FRANK P. GRAHAM LUTHER GULICK REV. GEORGE Johnson CHARLES H. JUDD KATHARINE F. LENROOT ARTHUR B. MOEHLMAN HENRY C. TAYLOR T. J. THOMAS JOHN H. ZINK GEORGE F. ZOOK Vice Chairman PAUL T. DAVID, Secretary 1 Deceased September 22, 1937. 2 Resigned March 1, 1937. II FOREWORD BY THE COMMITTEE The Advisory Committee on Education was appointed by the President of the United States on September 19, 1936, initially for the purpose of making a study of the experience under the existing program of Federal aid for vocational education, the relation of such training to general education and to prevailing economic and social conditions, and the extent of the need for an expanded program of Federal aid for vocational education. The Committee was requested to develop recommendations that would be available to the Congress and the Executive. Under its original assignment, the Committee was known as the President's Committee on Vocational Education. In a later letter dated April 19, 1937, the President stated that he had been giving much thought to the general relationship of the Federal Government to education, that numerous bills in connection with educational matters were pending in the Congress, and that it was his understanding that the Committee was already in possession of much information bearing upon the subject. He therefore requested the Committee to give more extended consideration to the whole subject of Federal relationship to State and local conduct of education, and to prepare a report. In accordance with this request, the Committee enlarged the scope of its work and prepared a comprehensive report, which was transmitted to the President on February 18, 1938, and was transmitted by him to the Congress on February 23, 1938. The report was printed as House Document No. 529, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session. An indexed edition of the report, differing in pagination but not in text, was also printed for public use by the Advisory Committee, and has been made widely available.1 1 The Advisory Committee on Education, Report of the Committee, for sale by the Superintendent of Documents. U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Price 35 cents. 3:8-47 |