Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference was dominated by public-school administrators, school-board representatives, and such vested interests as the National Education Association. More in evidence at the Johnson meeting was a new breed of outside innovators, such as Carnegie Corp. President John Gardner who served as chairman; U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel, who does not even hold a graduate degree; and a host of university-oriented reformers, ranging from James B. Conant to President John H. Fischer of Columbia University's Teachers College...
...condition for receiving federal funds, Harvard has signed an assurance of compliance with the Civil Rights Act. "We have been assured by Harvard that it has complied," said John Naisbitt, a spokesman for Keppel. "We have continued to act on this fact. It is the only thing we can do unless a complaint is filed," he explained...
...United States Office of Education will investigate claims of racial discrimination in Harvard final clubs or other organizations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act if a formal complaint is made to the Office, a spokesman for Commissioner of Education Francis G. Keppel '38 said last week...
Last month, in a reply to a letter from Senator Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.), Keppel said that a fraternity's refusal to admit a Negro because of his race could be grounds for cutting off federal funds to a University. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act empowers the Federal Government to withhold funds from recipients who practice racial discrimination...
...parent, 150 prekindergarten children attend Saturday classes to help prepare for school. Twenty college students prepare for teaching careers by working with 100 potentially delinquent elementary school pupils. An Urban Service Corps recruits 1,000 adult volunteers, including such Government wives as Mrs. Robert McNamara and Mrs. Francis Keppel, to tutor children, take them to historical sites, advise parents...