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Hoover Institution Archives
Title American Institutes for Research. Reports, 1960-1987 Description American non-profit institution for educational and social science research. Relates to development and evaluation of educational programs and methodologies, career guidance and training programs, and study of human behavior in various specific aspects. 50 boxes, stored off-site. RLIN catalog number: CSUZ91023-A.

California State Archives
Title California Department of Education. Bilingual-Bicultural Task Force Project Files, 1977 Description Correspondence, memoranda, reports, policy statements, forms, and other materials pertaining to the Lau vs. Nichols case (which established the right to bilingual education), budget, programs, and plans of the Bilingual-Bicultural Task Force. RLIN Catalog Number:CSAV90-A519

Title California State Government Oral Histories. Wilson C. Riles, Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1970-1982 Description Riles discusses the passage of the federal ESEA, discrimination in teacher employment, his own Early Childhood Education program and the concept of compensatory education, involvement of parents and school boards at the local level, college admissions standards, how he saw his own role as superintendent and Ronald Reagan's role as governor with respect to education in California. RLIN Catalog Number: CSAV86-A562

Title California Department of Education, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Subject Files, 1972-1973 Description Contains correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and legal opinions reflecting Chief Deputy of Superintendent's role as representative of the Department. Major subjects include bilingual-bicultural education, conflict and violence, drug abuse, venereal disease, collective bargaining, teacher tenure, legislation, early childhood education, vocational education, and education of gifted children. RLIN Catalog Number: CSAV86-A605

Title California Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education. Correspondence, 1949-1965 Description Correspondence to and from Bureau staff concerns program administration, policy and regulations; educationally and physically handicapped; mentally retarded; legislation; teacher training and credentials; cerebral palsy; epilepsy; the Department of Mental Hygiene; meetings and conferences; professional and advisory groups; and publications. RLIN Catalog Number: CSAV86-A734

University at Albany, University Libraries
Title Conference of Large City Boards of Education. Records, 1968-1981 Dept/Division M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives Description The Special Task Force on Equity and Excellence in Education was appointed as part of the Conference of Large City Boards of Education of New York State in 1978. Topics covered include school vouchers, regionalism in education, the correlation between class size and student achievement, special needs students, and other issues related to education policy. Also included is Eugene C. Samter's testimony from the 1976 Levittown vs. Nyquist case argued before the New York State Supreme Court. RLIN catalog number: NYAG91-A29

Harry S. Truman Library
Title William P. McCahill Papers Description Exec. Secretary of the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week (later renamed the President's Comm. on Employment of the Physically Handicapped, and later the President's Comm. on Employment of the Handicapped), 1949-73. The Annual Meeting series contains minutes from the annual meetings from 1948 to 1951. The Report series includes a 25th Anniversary Report of the President's Comm., correspondence from President Truman, photographs, a brochure, articles written by Mr. McCahill, and other items.

Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Title White House Subject Files on Education, 1963-1969 Description Presidential and staff messages to and meetings with students, educators, and education conferences; anti-dropout campaigns; Task Forces on Education & Child Development; Interagency Task Force on Education; DC schools; Panel on Computers in Education of the President's Science Advisory Committee; National Teacher Corps; ESEA; IEA; Reading is FUNdamental project; Office of EEO and school integration; National Student Association; BOB estimates of program costs; HEW estimates of education needs and suggestions for legislation.

Wilson Riles Archives and Institute for Education
Title The Wilson C. Riles Collection Description Personal and professional papers of Wilson Riles, spanning his time at the California State Department of Education (1958 - 1983) and including his tenure as California's Superintendant of Public Instruction from 1970 - 1983. Education during the Riles years experienced many stresses and exciting changes. It survived bussing, integration, student unrest, and Proposition 13. Programmatic innovations of the time included Early Childhood Education, the School Improvement Program, and the Master Plan for Special Education.

Stanford University, Special Collections
Title Alfredo Castañeda Papers, 1935-1978 Dept/Division Green Library Description Alfredo Castaneda, a nationally prominent expert in multicultural education, was the first Mexican American to be appointed to a full professorship at Stanford University. He served as consultant to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare's National Center for Health Statistics, and HEW's Task Force on School Integration.

Utah State University, Special Collections & Archives
Title Utah Education Association Records Description The organizational files of the Utah Educational Association, including committee minutes and reports (1967-1985), Board of Trustee minutes and reports (1959-1982), information about legislative activities (1949-1960), UEA newsletters (1969-1985), records of the Utah Council for the Improvement of Education (1963-1970).

Stanford University, Special Collections
Title Guide to the Secular Yiddish Schools in North America : collection, 1915-2001 Dept/Division Green Library Description A collection formed through the efforts of Gella Schweid Fishman and Martha G. Krow-Lucal with support from The Friends of the Secular Yiddish Schools in America Collection (SYSA). Materials include curricula, newsletters, instruction books, song books, school board minutes, photographs, newsclippings, memoirs, ephemera and correspondence. (Special Collections M0732)

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Title Dorwatha Adderley papers, 1975-1998 Description Genealogical information, correspondence, speeches, minutes, newsletters, photographs, and audio-visual materials detailing Adderley's family life and activities as principal of Ascension School, the largest multi-racial Roman Catholic grade school (K-8) in Minneapolis, and as cocordinator of Parent Choice Advocates, a group organized to train citizens to lobby for financial assistance to low and middle income parents of non-public school children.

Pennsylvania State Archives
Title Secretary of Education. Administrative Correspondence, 1937-1979 Dept/Division Pennsylvania State Archives (http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/) Description Correspondence of the Sec. of Ed., as well as annual reports, special studies, major committee and conference records, federal program data, speeches, and reference copies of minutes. Topics include letters of recommendation by the Secretary, 1974-1976; progress reports for Dept. of Ed., 1972-1974; State Univ. Board of Trustees minutes, 1976-1978; Assoc. of School Administrators, 1969-1976; basic education; higher education; Public School Building Authority minutes, 1976-1977; correspondence with state colleges, 1970-1978; and with legislature.

Rockefeller Archive Center
Title General Education Board Archives (1901-1964) - 1967 Description The GEB was established in 1903 by John D. Rockefeller to aid education in the U.S. "without distinction of race, sex or creed." The emphasis was on the South and the education of Blacks. Offices were established in Richmond and Baton Rouge to give GEB agents closer contact with southern communities. The Board was especially active in promoting the public school movement in the early part of the 20th century. After 1940, programs other than those for southern education were brought to a close; the last appropriation was made in 1964.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives
Title David D. Henry Personal Papers, 1922-1984 Description The series includes correspondence, reports, photographs & clippings about Henry's involvement in educational missions & conferences in India, England, West Germany, Japan & Australia & service to the American Council of Ed., the Assoc. of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Academy for Educational Development, Assoc. of American Universities, Carnegie Corporation's Commission on Higher Ed. & Council on Policy Studies, National Institutes of Ed., etc.

Department of Records and Information Services
Title Isaiah Robinson Files, 1968-1972 Dept/Division New York City Department of Records and Information Services Description The Isaiah Robinson Files, 1968-1972, document portions of the work of a member and officer of the Board of Education, who served, during these years, as the first African-American president of the Board. The Isaiah Robinson Files document only a portion of Robinson's work on the Board of Education. While Robinson's service on the Board spanned the years 1969 to 1978, the records cover only the period 1969 to 1972. The location of the records for the period after 1972 is not known.

University of Montana--Missoula
Title Arnold Olsen Papers, 1956-1972 Description This collection contains the papers Arnold Olsen generated and collected while serving as U.S. Representative for the western Montana Congressional District, along with a few other materials unrelated to his congressional service. Materials include incoming and outgoing correspondence, legislative documents, official news releases, campaign materials, speeches, awards, certificates, gifts, and photographs.

Vanderbilt University
Title The John Egerton Papers, 1950s-2001 Dept/Division Special Collections and University Archives Description Includes correspondence, manuscripts of writings, speeches, research materials, publication materials, memorabilia, clippings and photographs, programs from cultural events, scrapbooks and periodicals on race relations and school desegregation, and audio and video tapes. Subject Files contain many issues of Integrated Education: Race and Schools, Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Inequality in Education. There are also scrapbooks of newspaper clippings pertaining to education issues in 1950-1951, especially in California.

Gerald R. Ford Library
Title David H. Lissy Files, 1974-1977 Description Education Files, 1974-76. Materials produced or accumulated primarily by Lissy, but also by his predecessor Roger Semerad, on . . . education issues before the Domestic Council. Included is information on administration programs for secondary and higher education, particularly interagency follow-up on President Ford's proposals for work and education; busing, affirmative action, the title IX controversy and similar minority education issues; and federal funding of education, especially the administration's education block grant proposals.

Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos/Hunter College
Title Luis O. Reyes Papers, 1961-1998 Description Educator, scholar, activist, and university professor. Collection contains information on bilingual education and multicultural education, New York City public schools, school dropouts, language rights, minority rights, HIV/AIDS education, ASPIRA of New York, Inc., educational reform, the Board of Education of the City of New York, and numerous organizations. Consists of administrative files, letters, memoranda, notes, notebooks, minutes, reports, announcements and newspaper clippings.

Title Joseph Monserrat Papers; 1953-2005 (Bulk 1960s-1980s) Description A government official and community leader. Collection contains correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, subject files, information about community organizations, and materials related to his positions on the Board of Education of the City of New York, the Migration Division of the Government of Puerto Rico and the Department of Community Affairs in the United States.