Educational Reform and the Principal

Abstract

A well-known college of education dean, Luvern Cunningham took last year off to think through some of the unprecedented problems that face U.S. public education. This article summarizes some of his conclusions. Already on record as questioning the value of universal compulsory education, Cunningham here ana lyzes several other controversial proposals for education reform, including the voucher ex periment planned for 1971 by the federal Office of Economic Opportunity.

Although this article is nearly twice as long as the usual BULLETIN piece, the editors chose to publish Cunningham's paper in full because it represents the considered judgment of a respected establishment figure who now believes that we are at a watershed where public educa tion must change or die.