Word: mcmurrin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boss of the U.S. Office of Education had barely been sworn in last week when he ventured an opinion about U.S. schools. "Soft," "flabby," "lax," "easy," exclaimed Commissioner Sterling M. McMurrin, 47. "We have much less knowledge, much less creativity, much less moral fiber than we would have had if our educational process had been more rigorous." McMurrin set his goal as "quality and rigor in teaching"-strong talk for the Office of Education, which for most of its 94 years has been a tame source of statistics rather than of standards...
...bring in a new view," says President Kennedy's HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. He set out to find "a philosopher who was not afraid of new ideas, and yet had administrative ability." Ribicoff quizzed "more than 150 people in the education world," got glowing reports about Sterling McMurrin, then academic vice president at the University of Utah. "He didn't even ask what the job would pay," recalls Ribicoff...