Word: mcmurrin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gain a vast unofficial influence in educational circles because he was so often consulted on appointments of top-level school superintendents, such as New York City's Calvin Gross. In 1962 Keppel himself was tapped for the commissioner's job by President Kennedy to succeed Sterling McMurrin, who had decided to go back to teaching philosophy in Utah after a frustrated tenure of 17 months...
...confusing multiplicity of proposed academic reforms (teaching machines, language labs, "new math"); yet the Office of Education's research program is too small to be of much use. The Office has less influence in Congress, for example, than the National Education Association. Keppel's predecessor, Sterling McMurrin, pointed out after quitting this fall that an N.E.A. blizzard of telegrams to all Congressmen was what scuttled the college-aid bill he supported...
...appointment of Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, as United States Commissioner of Education was announced by President Kennedy on Saturday. The post has been vacant since September, when Sterling M. McMurrin resigned and returned to his former post at the University of Utah...
...reforms. But no state yet has a full-time research commission. "If 50 states had them," says Eurich, "we'd see a fast improvement in national education." In theory, the top goader could be the U.S. Office of Education, which has recently awakened under articulate Com missioner Sterling McMurrin and is next month due for "reorganization." But the agency is likely to remain in essence a dispenser of statistics - even if a more efficient one. U.S. education has nothing comparable at the national level to the FBI, for example, which by research and training has sharply improved local police...
...Teacher Scandal. Yet the main shortage is teachers. The nation's public and private schools not only need 3% more teachers-or 1,684,000 in all-but also much better ones. Last week U.S. Commissioner of Education Sterling McMurrin called this the "basic" problem facing U.S. schools in 1961. "It is a national scandal,'' said he. "that large numbers of our teachers are inadequately prepared in the subject matter they teach.'' More pay might help. U.S. public schools last year paid classroom teachers a record average wage of only $5,215, and the variation...