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...reforms. But no state yet has a full-time research commission. "If 50 states had them," says Eurich, "we'd see a fast improvement in national education." In theory, the top goader could be the U.S. Office of Education, which has recently awakened under articulate Com missioner Sterling McMurrin and is next month due for "reorganization." But the agency is likely to remain in essence a dispenser of statistics - even if a more efficient one. U.S. education has nothing comparable at the national level to the FBI, for example, which by research and training has sharply improved local police...
...Teacher Scandal. Yet the main shortage is teachers. The nation's public and private schools not only need 3% more teachers-or 1,684,000 in all-but also much better ones. Last week U.S. Commissioner of Education Sterling McMurrin called this the "basic" problem facing U.S. schools in 1961. "It is a national scandal,'' said he. "that large numbers of our teachers are inadequately prepared in the subject matter they teach.'' More pay might help. U.S. public schools last year paid classroom teachers a record average wage of only $5,215, and the variation...
Sterling M. McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education, will speak tonight at the first session of the Summer School's annual Conference on Educational Administration...
...McMurrin, former academic vice-president and professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, will address school superintendents from 48 communities throughout the nation and Summer School students at Lowell Lecture Hall at 8:15 p.m. tonight...
...annual Harvard Summer School Conference on Educational Administration, in late July, will be concerned with "National Goals in Education." Among the guests participating will be Dr. Sterling M. McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and Dr. Arthur S. Adams, President of the American Council on Education