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...conference was dominated by public-school administrators, school-board representatives, and such vested interests as the National Education Association. More in evidence at the Johnson meeting was a new breed of outside innovators, such as Carnegie Corp. President John Gardner who served as chairman; U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel, who does not even hold a graduate degree; and a host of university-oriented reformers, ranging from James B. Conant to President John H. Fischer of Columbia University's Teachers College...
...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...
...condition for receiving federal funds, Harvard has signed an assurance of compliance with the Civil Rights Act. "We have been assured by Harvard that it has complied," said John Naisbitt, a spokesman for Keppel. "We have continued to act on this fact. It is the only thing we can do unless a complaint is filed," he explained...
Last month, in a reply to a letter from Senator Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.), Keppel said that a fraternity's refusal to admit a Negro because of his race could be grounds for cutting off federal funds to a University. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act empowers the Federal Government to withhold funds from recipients who practice racial discrimination...