Word: mcmurrin
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Sterling M. McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education, will speak tonight at the first session of the Summer School's annual Conference on Educational Administration...
...McMurrin, former academic vice-president and professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, will address school superintendents from 48 communities throughout the nation and Summer School students at Lowell Lecture Hall at 8:15 p.m. tonight...
...annual Harvard Summer School Conference on Educational Administration, in late July, will be concerned with "National Goals in Education." Among the guests participating will be Dr. Sterling M. McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and Dr. Arthur S. Adams, President of the American Council on Education
...Call for Brains. Son of a high school teacher, McMurrin worked his way through the University of Utah, made Phi Beta Kappa, took his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. In 1948 he returned to Utah as a philosophy professor, became dean of the liberal arts and sciences college and later vice president. McMurrin showed particular skill in leading summer seminars among businessmen and educators at Aspen, Colo. "Inevitably," says one participant, "the consensus was in accord with McMurrin's views...
Commissioner McMurrin is a strong proponent of local school control, "but certain judgments must be made from the viewpoint of national perspective." Last week he promised to raise academic standards by calling not only on professional educators but also on the country's best brains-including that most caustic critic of U.S. schools, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Said dispassionate Philosopher McMurrin: "I think Admiral Rickover's impact on American education has been essentially good. His demand for greater rigor and the pursuit of excellence has had an excellent effect...