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- and served in that capacity with some leaves of
absence for brief service periods in government up until 1962.
Well, I took a year's leave of absence and went up to Wesleyan University as a
Fellow. After that I became national affairs editor of The Reporter
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that.
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Let me ask you about Ted Berry.
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Yes.
G:
Why do you think he was selected to head Community Action?
H:
Oh, I think Ted had great credentials. He was black, he had been a national officer of the
NAACP, been on the national committee, knew
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National sampling.
In my State, for example, when we talked about statewide t esting, we
had the same attitudes opposing statewide testing.
Presently we have the
oppositio n of chief State school officers to any
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impression that while many of the task forces were quite important in
terms of policy-generating suggestions, that the committees, formal ยท
advisory committees made up of professionals in the vartous areas,
adjuncts to the Office of Education