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Show 1956 The Year For Eduacation During the coming months there will be Educational Conferences Con-ferences in thousands of school districts across the nation, sponsored spon-sored by National School Board Assns., National and State citizens citi-zens committees, and by other educational groups. These citizens' conferences on education which are daily swelling in numbers, are the means for finding out what the American people want to do with their schools. Authentic information infor-mation reveals that only at local levels, with citizens providing their own answers, can the real solutions be found to the' problems prob-lems of school finance, organization, curriculum, teachers, and public interest in education. An approval of school statistics, reveals re-veals unpleasant facts based on widely accepted standard's of the past 10 to 20 years. Schools now are in danger of short changing a whole generation of Our children. In Duchesne County, Coun-ty, recent surveys have' indicated that our schools are not nearly as good as we want them to be. Many inadequacies in our instructional program, organization organiza-tion and curriculum, are the cause. The solution of our problems prob-lems does not lie solely in the hands of our professional, educators. edu-cators. It is the duty and responsibility of every citizen of Duchesne County, to gain an understanding of these problems and to assist in recommending the' best solutions, and remedies. Our 1956 Rural Education Conference to be held at Alta-mont Alta-mont School, March 22 and 23, is our opportunity to do this. This Conference is of such importance to the future of Education Educa-tion in Duchesne County, that every citizen, no matter what the sacrifice, should attend. |