PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Allen, James
TI  - An Interview with James Alle
AID  - 10.17763/haer.40.4.kq620626261p6865
DP  - 1970 Dec 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 533--546
VI  - 40
IP  - 4
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/40/4/533.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/40/4/533.full
SO  - herp1970 Dec 01; 40
AB  - In this frank interview, the former Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of Education discusses his tenure in Washington. He points to several promising initiatives. But with regard to the poor and the blacks, he identifies the Nixon administration strategy as one of minimal accommodation, not leadership or advocacy;and regrets the inadequate financing of education by the federal government and a "continuing and serious under-estimation of the degree of alienation and disaffection of the young." As matters of structural improvement, he recommends the National Institute of Education and the elevation of Education to Departmental status.