Show Educators Report on New New- Plan PlanT T To 0 Coordinate School Units EN ADAMS ADAMS BY SEL SELEN CARLYLE CARLYL f P publications pub pub- b. b Assistant Director Division As Education s- s National fIrst CLEVELAND Al' Al The formal step In an to fOI foi- the United States a system stem of education from the gar garten ten through 1 the was at the ninth an an- fifty anal nual convention o of the department of superintendence ence of the National Education association bY Dr lIck Hel bert S S. superintendent of f s N N. Y aril and chairman chair chair- man of the departments department's commission on the of the units ot of American education The commission according t 1 octor oc- oc tor has hns been at work worl for he of f past two years ears on the the waste vaste In education CAused by lade ot of coherence in studies and methods methods me- me and amI by th of various parts or of the educational system noW In this country The commissIon com coin missIon In a OO page pl printed report re- re port has raised the major Issues that need to be studied m more re thoroughly In solving the present articulation problem Thirty years ago Dr John Dewey Dowey of Columbia ty school called the attention of the teaching pro plO to educational waste and urged that something be done to bring about a situation In which the he education of an individual through the various vallous branches branch s of the school s ht be om ft more continuous process without cation or omission of necessary types of Instruction In Its report the commission on articulation admits that there must always be some in a any 11 school m. m but declares that ts Its presEnt investigation i is an effort to study sympathetically the I Ii i Institutions which make up the American educational system to an- an rive nyc at an understanding of I ar-I the proper of each Cach Institution and to contribute to the better articulation articulation arti- arti of separate untie within the thc system Leaders In iii education believe that the report Is one ne of mOst important today taday I one of the most Important documents In th the modern modern- history bt bf education and that th which It- It will prompt will have a profound effect upon the future ot of organized Instruction in the United States Th They y that hl higher her tion Is provided now for a greaten r numbers of the thc population than ever before In 1880 there were pupils enrolled in the American free high schools Today that enrollment t s i-s ismore more than There Is therefore an obvious need for clo closer r coordination In the branches In order that the result pf schooling may y be a well rounded life liCe ready and responsIbilities responsibilities re- re the opportunities to to meet of faithful citizenship articulating The problem or of AmerIcan education of the ever changing conditions of the tion-the discovery ot of new facts and methods of the he application ot of better Instruction The report pr tu to the teaching profession today I however pointS point'S the way to a lie lie- I of school ad- ad effort on the part of 1 to offer to American 1 youth routh for tor the first time a unified program of guided growth It ha has ma made le a significant step toward bringing about ultimately a situation situa- situa tion in which every unit ot of Ins ruc- ruc lion tion will meet directly the n needs ds' ds of pupils of the ages dealt with in that ii unit n i t. t |