School administrators have not done as much as they could in the fields of integration, scientific progress, and cultural advance, Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, said last night at Fogg Museum.
In the first annual Alfred D. Simpson Lecture, Keppel charged that "This nation has turned over to the judiciary the power of decision on policies of race relations and has established such bodies as the National Science Foundation to take initiative on reforms in education made necessary by scientific developments. . . . Basic educational decisions are being made by lawyers and scientists, not by the school administrators."
Keppel advocated expansion of research and development in education. "An enterprise of $15 billion a year is now conducted with a bare fraction of one per cent devoted to research and development," he said.
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