Excerpt from Excellence in Education: 1972 1973 Annual Report This is my first Annual Report as Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools. Its theme is Excellence in Education which we have striven to maintain and increase throughout the 1972-1973 school year. Its 12 months of development are woven around the following seven goals which I described to the Boston School Committee on September 5, 1972: 1. Creation of a Needs Assessment Program with Reading as the first priority. 2. Establishment of an updated Career Education Program to improve the job capabilities of all graduates. 3. Creation of a Boston Secondary School Commission with the goal of providing for the present and future educational needs of all secondary students. 4. Institution of a search for new funds and other resources. 5. Proposal to place new and stronger emphasis on the Arts. 6. Improvement of Communications at all levels. 7. Realignment of the Organizational Structure of the Boston School System, based on a year-long study by a professional management firm and others. In the summer weeks preceding the school year, I was privileged to visit the Superintendents of Schools in eight major urban cities throughout the nation with the aid of a grant from the Ford Foundation. I concluded that while the educational problems were localized and varied they were basically much the same throughout most of the nation's largest cities. With the opening of Boston's schools in September, 1972, I undertook an extended series of in-class visits to our Boston schools. I had been a teacher and an administrator in the system since 1958 but my desire was to acquire updated and first-hand kwledge of conditions as they existed. I visited all of our more than 200 school buildings and spoke personally with nearly all of our 5,000 teachers, with many of the supportive personnel, and with thousands of students and parents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.