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...Gardner, the commissioner is responsible for an ever expanding variety of federal programs, ranging from school integration to college scholarships to developing new teaching techniques. Last week President Johnson named to the job Harold Howe II, 47, a proven administrator in both public and private education, to succeed Francis Keppel (TIME cover...
...student of secondary education, I feel that your Keppel cover story [Oct. 15] was one of the best I have seen in TIME. From it, laymen and educators can obtain a résumé of federal action on schools...
...Keppel regularly runs through a nonstop, eleven-hour working day, conferring with the President or with HEW Secretary Gardner, calling weekend staff meetings, visiting schools, addressing meetings of the Chamber of Commerce or the United Jewish Appeal, or just about any interested group that shows a willingness to discuss the nation's education programs. He is for ever torn between the desire to proselytize and the need to be at his desk. "When a Congressman calls," he says, "I want to be there...
...pressures of office ever do get to him, Keppel confides it only to his trim, sprightly wife Deedie (for Edith). The two live alone in a rented brick house in Georgetown; one daughter, Tracy, 23, who attended Bennington College and Boston University-but never graduated-is married, and a second, Susan, 18, is a freshman at Centenary College in Shreveport, La. "I love hearing about Frank's job," Deedie says. "I'm about the only person he can blow his stack with. Frank is just like his father. He leaves the cellar flooded and flies off to South...
National Testing. Keppel worries about where education in the U.S. is going. He contends that no one even knows where it is now-and that "what we don't know about education can hurt us." For that reason, he advocates a system of national testing that can supply an objective assessment of the state of the schools...