Word: gulick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a merger was likely. Thereupon up rose Nelson Rockefeller (John D.'s grandson), a Lincoln alumnus whose seven-year-old son Rodman is now in the school, to announce that he was having an investigation of the school made by leading educators. Chief investigator: Dr. Luther H. Gulick, director of the Regents' recent $500,000 survey of New York's public schools...
...swelling ranks of the C. C. C., the N. Y. A., and the W. P. A., the struggle of youth to find an opening in private industry is becoming more acute each year. Claiming that public education has failed to prepare its graduates for their place in life, the Gulick report to the New York Board of Regents last fall favored the establishment of an eight year secondary school. In its work training units the National Youth Administration has recognized this same need to "educate towards employment...
...improve New York's public schools as Dr. Gulick's committee recommends would cost some $38,000,000. But he contends that the State can save more than $40,000,000-$2,000,000 net-by consolidating rural schools, enlarging their classes to 25 or 30 pupils, reducing interest charges on school building by more rapid debt reduction, and chiefly by eliminating some 8,000 teaching jobs as elementary school enrollments decline because of the falling birth rate...
Well aware that most surveys of education end in libraries, Dr. Gulick lost no time in starting a campaign to translate his $500,000 report into action. This week the Public Education Association in Manhattan gathered many a bigwig to hear...
...Gulick and Mr. Young plead for a better deal for New York's pupils and taxpayers...