• Foreword ·

THE National Committee on Research in Secondary Education, which took such an active part in the National Survey of Secondary Education during its progress, has been no less interested in follow-up of the survey after its completion. The suggestions coming from this organization have been most valuable. The present publication is an outgrowth of one of those suggestions made by the members of the committee to the Office of Education through Carl A. Jessen, of the Office staff, who is also secretary of the committee and was from 1929 to 1932 coordinator of the National Survey of Secondary Education.

In the preparation of this bulletin Mr. Jessen has had helpful advice and assistance from members of the staff of the National Survey of Secondary Education, who examined the materials prepared on the respective monographs of which they are authors; from Harl R. Douglass, of the University of Minnesota, and D. H. Eikenberry, of Ohio State University, who reviewed parts of the manuscript while it was in preparation; and especially from Leonard V. Koos, of the University of Chicago, who was associate director of survey, and contributed materially to revision and improvement of the present manuscript.

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The bulletin on Needed Research in Secondary Education is issued in the belief that it will be useful to workers in educational research and through them to schools and educators throughout the Nation.

BESS GOODYKOONTZ,

Assistant Commissioner of Education.