Conant Given Award By 'Saturday Review'

The "Saturday Review" has voted The Education of American Teachers, by James B. Conant, President Emeritus of Harvard, as the "most influential and significant book on education in the past two years."

Conant's book was selected by a panel of nineteen editors and educators, each of whom were asked to choose five or six titles.

Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of Education and a member of the panel, described the book in his comment to the "Review" as "significant because, written by Conant, it will be read; and significant in that it identifies clearly the power structure within education which affects teacher education."