A. A small number of schools, probably not more than twenty, will be chosen to carry on experiments in secondary education appropriate to tile purpose of this Plan. The number is limited so as not to be unwieldy for experimental purposes. There will be included public and private schools each with funds, faculty personnel and interest, parental support, and administrative leadership adequate to the task. Only schools of highest character and excellence and established reputation will be admitted to this group. These schools will enter into an admissions arrangement (described below) with colleges for an experimental period of five years beginning with the autumn of 1936.

NOTE:----As this arrangement permits the schools to change their curriculums in the fall of 1933, candidates for admission to college in 1936 will have had three years' experience tinder the reconstructed curriculum before leaving the preparatory school.

B. A Directing Committee has been appointed to supervise all aspects of the Plan, including the practical co-ordination between schools and colleges and the securing of effective educational procedure. The membership of the Committee, which represents the various types of colleges and schools sharing in the study, is given in the accompanying letter. As the work develops, the functions of this Committee, in its relations to the schools and colleges involved, will become increasingly clear. At the present time it is plain that its responsibilities will include:

1. Selection of the schools to share in the experiment
2. Examination of plans of work and proposed curricula submitted by the schools3. Approval, rejection or revision, in collaboration with the school, of plans submitted
3. Working with each school in the systematic study and development of its work as it proceeds and obtaining full and adequate reports from time to time.
4. Determining the degree of uniformity necessary or desirable in the work of the schools sharing in the plan6. Bringing the schools and colleges into close co-operation in guiding each student's work. As soon as a pupil has indicated his choice of a college, it is hoped that representatives of the college will work with the school in studying and counseling the candidates, and that the school will work with the college after the strident begins his college career.
5. Suggesting such modifications in college regulations and procedure for the students entering during the five year period tinder the new arrangement as will conserve the fundamental educational values of the experiment
6. Systematic observation of these students during college and as many years thereafter as seems wise, with the idea of evaluating the work- of the schools participating in this study

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