Word: keppell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, to qualify for the $764 million that Congress is expected to make available to Southern public schools this year, about 1,700 of the region's 1,950 districts submitted integration plans that were acceptable to U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. Roughly half of these districts took the easy way by adopting "freedom of choice" plans, under which Negroes are to designate the school they wish to attend. These plans have been attacked by civil rights groups because "freedom of choice" places the burden of initiative upon local Negroes-who have to buck intense white pressure-rather...
...Keppel's office agrees, may reconsider these plans next year. Of all districts that submitted acceptable plans, however, almost 90% gulped hard and prepared to integrate all twelve grades this fall, while the rest accepted the four-grades-a-year minimum policy set by Keppel...
...library volumes for communities with fewer than 2,500 people, figures that 69% of the 7,260 public libraries in the U.S. are substandard. Of the 8,000 elementary schools in the country, fully 60% have no central libraries, a state of affairs that U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel calls "a national disgrace...
...heeded the admonition of Chairman Gardner that they were there "not to be lectured at but to be heard." The topic that stirred the conference's loudest and sharpest clash was the notion that federal grants may be followed by federal testing to assess educational results. Warned Commissioner Keppel: "The nation's taxpayers and their representatives in Congress will want to know-and have every right to know-whether that investment is paying off." John I. Goodlad, director of U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School, proposed a highly selective sample testing of a representative few students...
Only Nibbling. What is obviously needed is fresh approaches to such problems. Yet, noted Keppel, "We have been nibbling at innovation." The educators agreed that new ideas in teaching are tried out in only 15% of the nation's schools, and that teachers should have more freedom to experiment...