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Show Citizens Council Call Meeting on Schools A state conference on Utah high schools has been called for January 22 at the Highland high school. This will coincide with the visit of Dr. James Bryant Conant, President Emeritus of Harvard University, who will report on a two-year study of the American high school which he has completed under auspices of the Carnegie Foundation, and under administration of the Educational Edu-cational k Testing Service of Princeton', N. J. Dr. Conant was the creator, if not the actual founder, of today's National Citizens Council for Better Schools. In the State Conference Con-ference the delegates will report on the particular problems of their high schools. They will compare ideas on what can and should be done locally and at other government levels to produce the kind of high school graduates Utahns want. The report of the state and local conferences will endeavor to sum up these findings, ideas and recommendations in a guide for improvement of Utah high schools. Citizens participating in local and state conferences on Utah high schools should bear in mind that they are working for only one person, the high school graduate, grad-uate, the council noted. When a program for betterment better-ment of the school might come in conflict with the desires of an individual or with the stated interests in-terests of a community, the only decision that can be made is the one which would provide the greatest benefit to the school student, the council said. It is the hope of the conference confer-ence sponsors that all those taking tak-ing part in the program will adopt this single point of view and . apply it throughout the studies. |