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Integration. While research looks to education's future, there is still the troublesome problem of school integration. With the 1964 Civil Rights Act as his club, Keppel issued "guidelines" last spring ordering integration at the rate of four grades a year for the next three years; in the absence of such plans, schools could adapt "freedom of choice" plans, by which Negroes would be permitted to enter any school that could accommodate them. Any school system that failed to develop acceptable plans, he said, would lose its claim to federal funds. To ease the pain, Keppel sent...
...such luck. Last week, after a head count, Keppel found that only 217,000 Negro students-7.5% of school-age Negroes-had entered predominantly white schools in the South, an increase of only three times that of last year. Instead of compliance, much of the South had once again played the game of tokenism or outright defiance...
...Keppel washed well enough, succeeded in getting faculty members from other disciplines into the education school, set up joint professorships on the theory that knowledge in specific fields is vital to the teaching of teachers. Says Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy, who was dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences: "Keppel won the respect of his faculty and my snobbish faculty, who tended to scoff at deans of education. He is a man who has grown on every job he's had-and left each a bigger job than it was." In 1962, John Kennedy invited Keppel...
...Recalls Keppel today: "Those Kennedys never forget an election...
Incredible Secretaries. In three years as Education Commissioner, Keppel has knocked the old pedagogical stuffiness out of the Office of Education; for one thing, he has gotten the dozens of Ph.D.s there to quit calling each other "Doctor." Recently he overheard a staffer apologizing for never having gone to college. Keppel butted in with: "What the hell difference does that make...