Active recruitment by business 

 and industry of promising 

 youth who for their own good 

 and the national interest 

 should be encouraged to con- 

 tinue their education. 



Lack of provision for assisting 

 needy students in high school 

 who must take jobs to help 

 support themselves or their 

 families. 



The responsibility for improving 

 these conditions is primarily upon the 

 local communitv and business inter- 

 ests and the State governments, al- 

 though it must be recognized that, in 

 some sections of the country, re- 

 sources are lacking to provide ade- 

 quate high schools. 



A number of recent studies have 

 shown that among high school grad- 

 uates there are many who have the 

 intelligence and ability for college 

 but who do not go to college for a 

 variety of reasons, chiefly economic 

 and geographic. Excerpts from these 

 studies are given at the end of this 

 section as evidence of ihe present 

 failure to provide adequately for the 

 continued education of promising 

 American youth. 



In the light of the studies made, 

 having regard to the facts of the edu- 

 cational pyramid, it clearly is essen- 

 tial to provide for the early schooling 

 of more able students in order that 

 a large enough group will survive to 

 become a larger quota of high-ability 

 students at the apex of the pyramid. 

 No matter how capable and gifted 

 bovs and girls mav be, if thev do not 

 have opportunities to complete ele- 

 mentary and high school, they cannot 

 go on to college and thence to gradu- 

 ate school for research training. 



To increase this small group of 

 exceptionally able men and women 



it is necessary to enlarge the number 

 of able students who go to college. 

 This involves more and better high 

 schools, with provisions for helping 

 capable students in the high schools 

 (primarily a responsibility of every 

 local community) and opportunities 

 for more capable, promising high 

 school students to go to college. Any 

 other practice constitutes an inde- 

 fensible and wasteful utilization of 

 higher education and neglect of our 

 human resources. 



Following are summaries of studies 

 pertinent to our inquiry concerning 

 able students lost to higher educa- 

 tion: 



The Carnegie Foundation carried 

 out a thorough investigation into the 

 relationships and mutual responsibili- 

 ties of the high schools and colleges 

 of Pennsvlvania. One of the pur- 

 poses of the study was to answer the 

 question: Who shall go to college? 



The procedure of the study in- 

 volved extensive testing of high 

 school seniors and college students, 

 study of records, and study of prog- 

 ress made in college. Comparisons 

 were then made between college and 

 non-college groups and between va- 

 rious college groups. 



The results of this study showed 

 that the group of high school gradu- 

 ates who went to work included 

 many fully as able to obtain high test 

 scores as any pupils who went di- 

 rectly to college. Pennsylvania col- 

 leges of arts alone took nearly 4,000 

 of the high school group tested in 

 1928. The colleges accepted nearly 

 1,000 with test scores below the aver- 

 age of the group who did not go to 

 college and they failed to enroll 3,000 

 with better average scores than the 

 4,000 they did admit. Although the 

 college group exhibited a test score 



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