Word: keppel
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After three months of searching, the Kennedy Administration last week dragged its favorite talent pool, Harvard, to fish up a new U.S. Commissioner of Education. He is Francis Keppel, 46, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His new task is one that other top educators spurned, though most of them are eager to see it accomplished. It is to upgrade the U.S. Office of Education and to make it an effective federal voice in U.S. education...
...colleges need authoritative appraisal of a confusing multiplicity of proposed academic reforms (teaching machines, language labs, "new math"); yet the Office of Education's research program is too small to be of much use. The Office has less influence in Congress, for example, than the National Education Association. Keppel's predecessor, Sterling McMurrin, pointed out after quitting this fall that an N.E.A. blizzard of telegrams to all Congressmen was what scuttled the college-aid bill he supported...
...Keppel's credentials are impressive. Almost singlehanded, he has lifted the once low-grade Harvard Graduate School of Education to national preeminence, overtaking Columbia Teachers College. Son of Frederick P. Keppel, who was dean of Columbia College and later president of the Carnegie Corporation, Francis Keppel got his only earned degree (A.B.) at Harvard in 1938; nonetheless he is today ranked as a top educator without a doctor's or even a master's. He started out studying sculpture at the American Academy in Rome, but concluded that as a sculptor he was not good enough ever...
...NOTE: Yesterday's editorial Implied that the Deanship of Harvard's Graduate School of Education had somehow contributed to the low status of the post of Commissioner of Education. This was a typographical mishap; the editorial should have said that Dean Keppel's Harvard post has helped to make his influence felt--an influence we hope the Commissioner's office will not neutralize...
...tenure at Harvard, Keppel has frequently advocated a wide-spread program of federal aid to education. Most significantly, he has favored a vast network of nationwide research and development facilities to spur original research...