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dated May 26, 1959: Education in U.S.

President Eisenhower’s Science Advisory Committee recommended in Washington on May 23 that spending on American education should be doubled to about 37,000 million dollars a year. It stated in a report, headed “Education for the age of Science” that educational expenditure was now about four per cent of the country’s gross national product (the total of goods and services produced annually). “If we wisely spent twice that much to achieve higher quality it would be more than worth the cost,” it commented, adding that “doubling our current annual investment in education is probably a minimal rather an extravagant goal.” Education in America is mainly the individual State’s responsibility with the Federal Government providing student loans and help for research but not making direct grants.

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