present weighty problems in manning our laboratories both to provide wartime technical advances and to aid in meeting the difficulties of the postwar readjustment. When peace comes there will be a gap of several years before junior men of proper training become available a t a normal rate. Supplementary study will be needed to round out fragmentary courses in the scientific and engineering disciplines and to reorient young technical men whose careers were interrupted. Fundamental research has had to be curtailed or stopped by an increasing number of scientists as they have been called to aid in emergency problems. Their assistants are dispersed and their equipment is gathering dust. This intemption of progress in basic science is a great loss to the world which we must bend every effort to overcome in the postwar period. Research scientists in industrial, university, and government laboratories have played a vital part in the production miracle of this nation during the past year and a half. Our technical programs have now developed in such a way that the results will be still more important with each succeeding month. And when the war is ended these same scientists will point the way to a prosperous future.
may be obtained from the Secretary a t future meetings. At the invitation of the Civilian Preinduction Training Branch of the War Department, Millard W. Bosworth represented the N.E.A.C.T. a t a conference held in the Pentagon a t Washington, July 22-24. The Fundamentals of Machines and Electricity was the topic under discussion, and much work was accomplished on a new presentation of parts of these courses for the teachers of the United States. It is hoped that a supplementary manual for the P.1.T courses will be issued by September to acquaint the teachers Setter with the idea behind this work. It is essential that all teachers get behind the work and aid their students in obtaining a background of practical information to prepare them for induction into the armed forces.
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About 189,000 teachers were reported in March as new to their positions in 194243, as compared to less than 95,000 in normal years. Probably 30 to 40 per cent of these came from other teaching positions. The teacher turnover rate, normally ahout 10 per cent, practically doubled in 194243. It was more than twice as great in rural schools, as in city schaols. The greatest losses were in city and rural war-related highschool subjects in which men predominate, and in rural elementary schools, in which very low salaries prevail. There were heavy losses from rural school positions to better paid city school positions. The numbers of unfilled positions in highschool subjects were greatest in: industrial arts, physical education, mathematics, commercial education, agriculture, physics, home economics, chemistry, and trades and industries. Standards of preparation of teachers have been seriously lowered. The number of emergency certificates issued in 194041 was 2305; in 1941-42, 4655; and in 194743, to March, an estimated 36,689.
An urgent request has come to the Secretary for Vol. 42, No. 1 of the Report. This is wanted by the New York State Library in Albany. They are anxious to get some volumes of the Report and anyone cleaning off his shelves will find the library grateful for the gift. Members of the Association will be interested to learn that Dr. Laurence S. Foster, Immediate PastPresident, and Associate Editor of the JOURNAL, is now a t the University of Chicago where he is doing war research. He has resigned as Associate Editor, and Dr. Leallyn B. Clapp has been appointed to take his place. New Manuals giving the names and addresses of all members of the Association have been prepared and
TEACHER MANPOWER PROBLEMS AND THE WAR The United States Office of Education (Washington, D. C.) has recently issued a three-page statement under the above title. It should be in the hands of every teacher in the country. From i t we quote the following:
