Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-12-09 | Page 2 | Children Lose Time in School

CHILDREN LOSE TIME IK SCHOOL Shortage of Teachers Deprives Over 300,000 of Education. Report Declares WASHINGTON, Dec 9 Between .'.0 i.ooo and jnn.OiHi t-hlldrtn were deprived de-prived of schooling last year as ft direct di-rect result Ol the shortage of leathers, leath-ers, according to estimates made by P, I. Cloxton, federal commissioner of education, In his annual ri port made public last night. No relief for the situation is seen by the commhisioner hn Mdileil Hint while frrni 11O.U00 f, possibly l.lo.ooo n w cm hern would be needed during the coming year, "we shall bavi :,t th outside 30,ooo prepared pre-pared teachers to fill vacancies or a deficit of at least S0.000. 'f even greater moment tlwin tbe actual shortage, the report soldi was the increase in "suh-stamlurd" instructors instruc-tors More than half the 160,000 teach - its of. the nation. It added, ore not ! prepared, according to any reasonable standard, for the work of teaching. The reasonable Standard of preparation prepara-tion is placed at a high school education educa-tion plus tWO years Of professional I training. One-fifth of the approximately 84.-,000 84.-,000 high school teach i rs In the conn--try. the report said, ore intending to ' .sek other employment To fiii such vacancies and to fill approximately! eiglU. thousand places created by the normal growth of high Schools, not i more than 5ooo eligible will be available, avail-able, the report estimated. The re-1 suit will be. the report naid. that in' hlsh schools alone fifteen thousand; (to 24.000 of the positions can not bej (Hied by adequately prepared teachers." teach-ers." . i