Word: cremins
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...shaping Washington's concept of the federal partnership in education, and the success with which he has helped gather lawmakers, politicians and educators into a purposeful alliance that supports the federal role. The key to Keppel's success, says Columbia University Professor of Education Lawrence A. Cremin, is that he is "a man of intellect, but he's not arrogant. He is a political animal in the Aristotelian sense-a man who understands power and wants to use it for decent purposes." Adds Memphis School Superintendent E. C. Stimbert: Keppel is "a breath of fresh...
Speakers will include Lawrence A. Cremin, Frederick Barnard Professor of Education at Columbia University; Herold C. Hunt, C. W. Eliot Professor of Education at the School of Education; and Lloyd S. Michael, superintendent of Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois...
...reading deficiencies is Charles C. Walcutt's Tomorrow's Illiterates (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), and it has the added virtue of describing key reading reforms throughout the country. Critics who blame it all on progressive education, without real knowledge of the subject, might check Lawrence A. Cremin's Transformation of the School (Knopf; $5.50), the first history of the movement by an able scholar who knows his facts and discounts his prejudices...