I can appreciate the difficult problems which must be resolved by many communities in meeting the changing needs of the American educational system. particularly in the areas of segregation. language barriers. and the problems of student dropouts with the concomitant aggravation of unemployment due to technology and automation. It is my pleasure to obtain permission to -have his remarks inserted in the CoxGREMSONAL RECORD. as follows: Demographers have established and die cerned profound changes in the population structures of.our older cities. and have been unanimous In noting the emergence of a megalopolis complex In our urban areas which is the spreading outward of the oit as the total population grows. the slum belt around the central business district of the old city becomes thicker with the concentration of lower class people in the areas of poorest housing. an this conglomerate at the center is a point of nucleus with sue.cessvely higher socioeconomic groups at greater and greater distances. with a middle Appendix class and upper middle class population in the suburbs. The old city in our America has become the citadel of -the migrant. the culturally deprived. and the immigrant. As a result of the growth of lowincome areas--the urban lower class schoolhas become a comon phenomenon and has posed educational problems of the greatest magnitudeand crisis. Such schools have a preponderance of pupils from working class homes. what the sociologist speaks of as a status ratio shows few or no pupils from middle class homes in these schools and is a matter of great alarm.
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