Word: keppell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assessment program was unveiled by former Education Commissioner Francis Keppel at the 1965 White House Conference on Education. He argued that "the nation's taxpayers and their representatives in Congress have every right to know whether their investment in education is paying off." In agreeing to finance pilot tests, Carnegie said that "a nation that has hitched its destiny to the star of education and pours billions of dollars into the enterprise is collectively crazy if it does not try to find out the result of all this effort. We don't know whether most ninth-graders...
...Keppel said that the basic questions to be reviewed are matters of purpose, equal treatment, equal opportunity, and the results of past programs in affecting educational quality...
...Keppel cited national investment in research and development as another pressure for change. "In the past, educational research and experimentation has not been intense, though federal funds for research have increased from five million dollars in 1962 to 100 million this year," he said...
...need constant changes in curriculum to reflect new knowledge," Keppel said. Instead, he said, education as an institution has remained "remarkably unchanged in the last 50 years." Universities will play an essential role in this area, the former dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education predicted...
...Keppel envisioned the development of new services and materials from industry, including systems of computers and multi-media, which could force changed in the role of teachers...