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BOSTON--Francis Keppel '38, a former U.S. Commissioner of Education under President John F. Kennedy '40 and a Harvard lecturer, died Monday at Stillman Infirmary...
...Keppel was considered a leader in education reform both as U.S. Commissioner of Education under Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1962 to 1966, and as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from...
...Keppel was also active in the creation of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the National Assessment of Education Progress and in the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in education programs...
Experts said that possible solutions to theproblem include increasing Federal aid tostudents, stepping up recruitment, and redoublingefforts to retain minorities once theymatriculate, said Francis Keppel, professor ofeducation and U.S. commissioner of education forthe Kennedy and Johnson administrations...
...whirlwind, nine-day campaign, about 15 members of Students for Ethical Government lobbied in the student. post office for their cause. Students for Ethical Government also sponsored speakers such as John Keppel, who worked in the State Department for 22 years. Keppel spoke on the Reagan administration's alleged cover-up of the spying intentions of the Korean Airline jet shot down by the Soviets...