From the Academy.

Debates as to why there are many poor unemployed despite the great economic expansion in the United States. Possible reasons for the paradox of unemployment in times when many firms are seeking additional competent employees; Importance of literacy in modern occupations; View that "progressive" educationists have failed to impart the skills of reading and writing to the young folk that most need help; Need of a qualitative reform, inexpensively attainable by the adoption of better basic manuals and the restoration of "phonics" as the sound method of achieving literacy; Main reason for "technological" unemployment.