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...Corporation, an educational foundation that has distributed $347 million in grants since 1911; he left that post this year to take the job at HEW. The man who is directly in charge of administering the Federal Government's education programs is Gardner's Commissioner of Education, Francis Keppel, 49, a dark, slight (5 ft. 10 in., 152 lbs.) intense bolt of activity. In three short years in Washington, Keppel has changed the Office of Education from custodian of highly forgettable statistics to the nation's most energetic nerve center of academic ferment...
...Keppel's powers spread throughout the entire fabric of American education. He is the czar of school integration programs, and can trigger a shut-off of federal funds to any educational project where racial discrimination exists. As Assistant Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, he heads a committee that is studying the educational efforts of 43 federal agencies. He is chairman of a group that will propose more legislation on education next year, and he will have much to say about the direction of a new federal program for spreading scientific research grants among clamoring universities...
...Franics Keppel '38, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and Dean of the Graduate School of Education from 1948 to 1962, has been appointed an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education Welfare, effective Oct. 4. Keppel's position in HEW is designed to strengthen his authority and bring closer coordination between the Office of Education and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He will remain Commissioner of Education...
...Francis Keppel '38, U.S. Commissioner of Education, had announced the temporary suspension of funds -- granted to Chicago under the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act -- last Friday after an investigation by the Office of Education substantiated charges by Chicago civil rights groups that the city's schools were willfully segregated and therefore should be barred from receiving federal aid under the 1964 Civil Rights...
...schools have enrollments that are less than 20% white. A new state law (TIME, Aug 27) requires schools to correct imbalance or forfeit state funds; Boston has until October to complete a pupil census, and then must submit plans to redress the balance. And U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel has begun an investigation to see if Boston's schools can continue to qualify for $2,000,000 in federal...