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...book entitled Shaping Educational Policy, Conant asks for strong state education boards to determine primary and secondary educational policy and for the adoption of master plans to co-ordinate education on the college level. He also offers a plan for a national education commission and a program for desegregating the nation's high schools...
Shaping Educational Policy is the eighth report Conant has written on American education since he started an intensive study of the subject seven years ago. Conant, who is 71, considers the 139-page book the culmination of his work in the field...
This plan would have the effect of taking control of educational policy out of the hands of "the establishment" of professional educators. Conant asserts that most of the problems that have arisen in education since World War II "fall outside of the interest and competence of the establishment...
...Conant also calls for each state to follow California's lead in adopting master plans to co-ordinate its colleges and universities. In calling for these plans he warns that "in the long run, decisions based on local or personal influences...lower the quality of the educational program...
Although advocating state-wide control of education, Conant bitterly attacks most existing state educational systems. "Too often," he says, "educational leadership at the state level...has been open to the charge that it was unwilling to examine public school needs critically...