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...trouble, the commission found, lay largely in the guidelines themselves. Francis Keppel, former U.S. Commissioner of Education, had allowed the districts to choose between two methods of integration. One, plainly subject to gerrymandering, would set up geographic boundaries within which all children, Negro and white, would attend the same schools. The other would leave Negroes free to attend any school of their choice that had vacant space. Most of the districts, and almost all of those in the Deep South, opted for the second method, thus putting the full burden of integration on the Negro himself...
...more deeply that universities must contribute in concert, as well as individually, to U.S. goals and progress. They tend, by their energy and conviction, to nominate themselves-which often means coming to the attention of such committee pickers as HEW Secretary John Gardner or his chief education assistant, Francis Keppel. The current inner group is pictured and described on these pages...
...school has long been scattered about the Harvard campus. It lingered in a state so lowly, compared with such Harvard professional schools as law and medicine, that President James B. Conant considered scrapping it in the mid-'30s. He kept it, however, and in 1948 appointed Francis Keppel, then 32 (now Assistant Secretary...
...Keppel doubled the size of the school's faculty, pioneered in bringing outside professors into the education faculty to break the hold of the educationists. He organized a cooperative program with 30 of the top liberal-arts colleges in the U.S. to funnel some of their most talented graduates into professional education via Harvard's graduate school. After Keppel moved on in 1962 to become U.S. Commissioner of Education, another brilliant young innovator, Theodore Sizer, now 33, succeeded him as dean, and continued the push toward making education a major concern of all of Harvard's academic...
...Keppel, he will spend full time on a second job created for him last September: Assistant Secretary of HEW. As commissioner, he had attempted to withhold some $30 million worth of federal aid to Chicago schools because of racial segregation, and had brashly told the Sigma Chi fraternity that unless it integrated, the colleges where it has chapters would lose federal aid. He will now give primary attention to the problem of trying to coordinate the conflicting, overlapping educational activities of 43 federal agencies...