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Kentucky State Archives
Title Legislative Research Commission. Report of Special Committee to Investigate Education. . . 1960 Description Report of Special Committee to Investigate Education to the House of Representatives of the Kentucky General Assembly. microform. RLIN catalog number: KYSVLE12S20-A.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Title Preston Wilcox manuscripts, 1965-1968 Dept/Division Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture (http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html) Description Consists of texts of speeches, papers, articles, and bibliographies reflecting Wilcox's endeavors as a community organizer and activist among African Americans in New York City. The subjects of his writings are public education and community organization in the ghetto. NYPL catalog number: Sc MG 235, RLIN catalog number: NYPW090000018-A

Alabama Department of Archives and History
Title Alabama Department of Education. ESEA materials, 1968-1982, State publication Description Reports of studies, assessments of needs and educational goals, guidebook for program auditing. Also, a statement relating to amendments to the ESEA by Dr. Wayne Teague, state superintendent, before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives. The series documents the Dept.'s activities toward the improvement of education through its administration of federal funds. RLIN Catalog Number: ALAV88-A818

Title Alabama Governor, Education Liaison Files, 1987-1993 Description This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, and publications pertaining to education. The records contain information on schools, educational programs, education trends, and numerous other related topics. The records are primarily those of Education Liaison Anita Buckley-Commander. The series also contains the files of Gail Ellebrake and Mary Jane Knight.

Title Alabama Governor, Education Liaison Files, 1993-1995 Description Types of records to be found include clippings, correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, petitions, press releases, reports, speeches, statistics, and transcripts. Among the topics discussed are educational reform, achievement testing, school violence, higher education, special education, vocational education, and the equity funding case. RLIN Catalog Number: ALAV95-A120

National Archives and Records Administration
Title US Department of HEW, Office of Education. Commissioner of Education's Office Files, 1953-1980 Description This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, clippings, reports, speeches, and copies of legislative documents. Subjects include Federal aid to schools, foreign education, program plans, vocational education, Title I, Head Start, bilingual education, school financing, and relations with Congress and the White House. There are also records relating to meetings of commissions, task forces, and other ad hoc groups.

University of Utah
Title Terrel H. Bell Papers (1981-1984) Dept/Division J. Willard Marriott Library Description The series consists of administrative files and subject files ranging from adult literacy to women's issues. Bell (born 1922) was U. S. Secretary of Education in the Reagan administration from 1981 to 1984. RLIN catalog number: UTSW90-A143

Jimmy Carter Library
Title Shirley M. Hufstedler collection, 1979-1981 Description The collection consists of records of Shirley Hufstedler as Secretary of Education from 1977-1981. Includes memoranda, correspondence, reports, speeches, and briefing materials. Subject files contain information on the creation, operation, and regulation of the Dept. of Education; presidential campaigns; and Dept. briefings. Lau files deal with the legal case regarding the rights of access to education for non-English speaking or bilingual Americans.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Title Minnesota Dept. of Education. Asst. commissioner's files, 1969-1983 Description Records of Dr. Gregory J. Waddick, assistant commissioner for the Planning and Development Division (1971-1978), Special Services Division (1978-1982), and Instruction Division (1982-1983). RLIN Catalog number: MNHV94-A379

Title Minnesota Dept. of Education, Div. of Special and Compensatory Ed., 1966-1982 Description Records of Dr. Wilfred D. Antell containing subject files that document divisional administration and programs particularly Indian education, bilingual education, legislative programs, migrant education, special education and education for the handicapped. RLIN catalog number: MNHV94-A382

Title Minnesota Council on Quality Education. Project files, 1971-1987 Description Reports on projects in elementary and secondary education following the recommendation of the Council on Quality Education. The bulk of the projects concentrate on early childhood; the handicapped; gifted students; multicultural and diversity, including African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, women, and world cultures; as well as vocational programming. RLIN Catalog Number: MNHV900321661-A

Title Minnesota Dept. of Education, Div. of Special Services. Federal program records, 1968-1982 Description Records concerning projects funded under Titles III, IV, and V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The bulk of the records were created under the Division of Planning and Development, which became the Division of Special Services in 1978. RLIN Catalog Number: MNHV93-A104

National Archives and Records Administration
Title US Department of HEW, Office for Civil Rights. Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey Files, 1968 - 1976 Description The agency conducted these surveys to monitor compliance by school systems with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The agency used the surveys to identify discrimination, to monitor the school integration process and specific complaints, to target and screen districts for in-depth review, and to better budget resources to maximize its planning and impact.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Title Minnesota Dept. of Education, Div. of Special Services. Planning, evaluating and reporting (PER) reports, 1981, 1986-1995 Description The 1981 files contain only the annual reports as submitted to each district's residents and the Education Department. The 1986-1995 files may also contain correspondence relating to their submission, school board meeting minutes documenting individual district's approval of their reports, and the Education Department's yearly evaluation forms. RLIN Catalog Number: MNHV94-A376

Massachusetts State Archives
Title Special Commission on Unequal Educational Opportunity. Administrative files, 1975-1979 Description The Special Commission on Unequal Educational Opportunity was established to investigate and study laws of the Commonwealth pertaining to elementary and secondary education, its school systems, and the educational laws, programs, and school systems of other states in order to determine the existence and extent of unequal educational opportunity services in the Commonwealth. RLIN Catalog Number: MASV90-A101

National Archives and Records Administration
Title Supreme Court of the United States. Case File for Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al., ca. 1950 - ca. 1955 Description This file contains records from five separate cases that were filed in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Delaware: Oliver Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al.; Harry Briggs, Jr., et al. v. R. W. Elliott, et al.; Dorothy E. Davis et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, et al.; Spottswood Thomas Bolling et al. v. C. Melvin Sharpe et al.; Francis B. Gebhart et al. v. Ethel Louise Belton et al.

Title US Dept. of Ed., Office of Educational Research and Improvement. National Center for Education Statistics. NAEP Data Files, 1969 - 1996 Description The agency conducted these national surveys of young Americans about major subjects usually taught in school in order to gather information that would aid educators, legislators and others in improving the educational experience.

Columbia University
Title United Parents Associations Records 1921-1989 Description These records document the organization's activity from 1921 to 1989. Major series in the records include annual reports; "historical files"; correspondence files; administrative files; committee records, including those of the Legislative Committee responsible for lobbying the state legislator; annual conferences; parent training material; subject files, including distinct series on integration, decentralization, collective bargaining, and school construction; and photographs of UPA leaders and activities.

National Archives and Records Administration
Title US House of Representatives, Committee on Education and Labor. Committee Papers, 1947-1974 Description This series contains minutes, petitions, memorials, bills, reports, and correspondence created by or referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce and its predecessors. Although the committee published most of the hearings it held, there are unprinted transcripts of hearings on subjects such as labor - management relations reform, juvenile delinquency, and Vocational Rehabilitation Act amendments.

Title US Senate, Committee on Labor and Human Relations. Committee Papers, 1885-1982 Description This series contains bills, correspondence, reports, presidential messages, executive communications, and hearings from the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and its predecessor committee, the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, and several of its subcommittees. Although the committee was established in 1870, there are no committee papers until 1885 (49th Congress). There are also no committee papers for the 51st, 54th, 58th, 59th, 62d, 65th, and 67th-69th Congresses.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Title Robert H. Beecher papers, 1941-1987 Dept/Division Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture (http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html) Description Personal papers, correspondence, writings and research materials relating to education in the Panama Canal Zone and the education of minorities in the United States. Included are papers documenting Beecher's career as a New York City school teacher and community coordinator for school district 12 in the Bronx. Also included are transcripts of interviews recorded in 1976-1977 with black political figures from Central Brooklyn.

University of Toledo Libraries
Title Ames, Edward C. (Edward Carder), 1906-1987. Ohio State Board of Education collection,1957-1972 Description Minutes and agenda of State Board of Education; reports and recommendations of Superintendent of Public Instruction; memoranda; correspondence; publications; clippings. Significant topics include school district reorganization, vocational education, and sex education.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Title Mary M. Forsythe papers, 1972-1990 (bulk 1980-1989) Description The papers document Forsythe's career in the legislature, and largely concern her work on the Health and Human Resources and Education committees. The papers include constituent correspondence (District 42B, Hennepin County); education, judiciary, and human resources legislative and subject files; and files on her work as a committee member of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

University of Washington Libraries
Title Demonstration Project for Asian Americans (Seattle, Wash.) Records, 1970-1981 Description Correspondence, minutes, reports, writings, newsletters, conference records, and grant proposals, relating to the project and its continuation with grant contracts from HEW, CETA funds, and other income, which expanded the studies and projects to include bilingual education, unemployment, underemployment, Asian war brides, problems of Asian health professionals, and Vietnamese resettlement, and a special study (1976) for the Seattle Catholic Archdiocese on the role of Catholic charities in Seattle.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Title Kwame and Mary McDonald papers, 1967-1989 Description Files document Kwame McDonald's work as Exec. Dir. of the Minnesota State Comm Against Discrimination (1961-1965) and the Governor's Council on Youth (1983-1987), and contain materials on minority issues confronting St. Paul's Summit-University Neighborhood.

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.

Wisconsin Historical Society
Title Haubrich, Vernon F. Desegregation study papers, 1967-1973 Description Papers entirely concerning a national research project (1967-1971) on the educational, sociological, and economic factors that contributed to successful elementary school desegregation. Included are achievement test forms completed by individual students; attitudinal questionnaires completed by teachers, counselors, and principals; and recorded interviews (some in transcribed form). Also included are taped interviews of students.

Title Wisc. Dept. of Public Instruction. EEO Committee Records, 1969-1973 Description Records of a committee formed in 1969 to promote equal educational opportunities for individuals in all ethnic and racial groups and to eliminate their isolation in education. The committee developed policies to desegregate schools and methodological guidelines to identify instances of segregation and implement corrective procedures. Included are minutes and related materials from the committee and several of its sub-committees.

Title Joint Committee on Education in Wisconsin. Records, 1934-1957 Description Papers of a non-profit organization of citizens' groups concerned with the quality of education in Wisconsin primarily in relation to taxation and finance of schools, rural school problems, and educational legislation. Included are organizational materials, correspondence, minutes, workshop materials, publications, and clippings.

Title Ulichny, Barbara L., 1947- . Papers, 1977-1992 Description Papers of Ulichny, a Democrat who has represented Wisconsin's 4th State Senate District since 1984 and who previously served in the Assembly (1978-1984). Included are general subject files and issues files from her terms as senator containing correspondence, draft legislation, reports, clippings, meeting notes, and other collected reference information; speeches; press releases; and press clippings.

Title Wisconsin Association of School Boards. Records, 1942-1961 Description Papers of a lobbying organization relating to such topics as state and federal aid to education, legislation, fiscal responsibility of school boards, public relations, and teacher welfare; including by-laws of the Association, minutes of directors' meetings and conventions, correspondence, financial statements, membership lists, informational reports on teacher salaries and other education topics, and treasurers' reports.

Massachusetts State Library
Title Massachusetts. General Court. Special Commission . . . Educational Facilities in the Commonwealth. 1962-1965 Description Massachusetts. General Court. Special Commission Established to Make an Investigation and Study Relative to Improving and Extending Educational Facilities in the Commonwealth. 1962-1965.

University of Utah
Title The David Pierpont Gardner papers. 1973-1983 Dept/Division J. Willard Marriott Library Description Contains correspondence, reports, draft documents, memorandums, articles, brochures, and newspaper clippings, dealing chiefly with Gardner's involvement with President Reagan's 'Excellence in Education' commission. David Pierpont Gardner served as president of the University of Utah from 1973 to 1983 and as president of the University of California from 1983 to 1992. The Excellence in Education commission was created in 1981 to study to design an alternative to what many felt was a cumbersome and ineffectual education system.