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RG 21. Price Laboratory School

 Record Group
Identifier: RG 21
Record Group 21 contains records, ephemera, and more related to the functioning of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School and its associated programs throughout the school's history. Please see below for specific collections. It also contains the papers of faculty, staff, and alumni, which are titled according to the person's name, followed by "Papers."

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

James L. Kelly Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/02/01
Scope and Contents

This small collection is strong in the area of the mission and role of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School in the 1980s and 1990s. The files of the Laboratory School Study Team are especially instructive. It also provides good documentation on the threats to close the school in 2002 and then again in 2012.

Dates: c. 1984-2012

Lyn Le Countryman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/02/02
Scope and Contents

Much of this collection is restricted in use due to the presence of student test scores that Professor Countryman likely used in the course of her research.

Dates: c. 2001-2012

Joan E. Duea Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/02/04
Scope and Contents

Professor Duea has been part of the effort to preserve Laboratory School history. In 2015, she began to give some of her papers to the University of Northern Iowa Archives. This collection is under development. Substantial additions to this collections are likely.

Dates: c. 1982-1998

Lynn Ethan Nielsen papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/02/05
Scope and Contents This collection provides a very strong look at trends in elementary school social studies teaching in the 1980s and 1990s. It also gives a good look at character education and male elementary school teachers' vocational choices. More specifically, the collection provides excellent documentation of Malcolm Price Laboratory School curricula and programming in the 1980s and 1990s. Researchers may wish to use this collection in conjunction with several other strong Laboratory School collections:...
Dates: c. 1975-2012

Butzier Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/03
Scope and Contents

Most of this collection consists of programs, publicity, previews, reviews, production photos, and congratulatory notes relating to the productions. The material in Boxes 1-12 is arranged chronologically by the date of the production. Marked director's copies of some of Professor Butzier's productions are in Box 13.

Dates: 1960-1985

Student Testing and Evaluation Files [RESTRICTED]

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/05
Scope and Contents The material in Boxes 1 through 10 consists primarily of Laboratory School student test results on the Iowa Test of Education Development (ITED) and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). The material includes individual student test scores as well as results sorted in a variety of ways. There is also a limited amount of correspondence related to the testing. These boxes are arranged chronologically. The material in Boxes 11 through 14 consists of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) test...
Dates: 1959-2012

Bobbette Marie Blaker Fortney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/06/01
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of material put together by Bobbette Marie Blaker during the time that she attended the Malcolm Price Laboratory School in the mid-1950s. The collection includes photographs, programs, classwork, and a large scrapbook. This collection is a very good view of student life at the Laboratory School during that period.

Dates: c. 1954-1957

General Audiovisual Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/07
Scope and Contents Audiovisual material was scattered throughout the boxes received by the Archives. Some of the media were labeled with a subject and date. Some had only a subject or a date on a label. However, large portions of this collection were without labels or any other sort of identification when they arrived. The processor arranged identifiable material chronologically and by media format. At this point, none of the material has been viewed by the processor of this collection to verify either the...
Dates: c. 1980s-2011

Laboratory School General Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/08
Scope and Contents This is a composite collection consisting of material already in the University Archives as well as considerable additional material that came to the University Archives in the summer of 2012, as part of the process of clearing the Malcolm Price Laboratory School building after the school's closing in June 2012. Boxes 1 and 2 are student and staff portrait photographs. They consist primarily of photographic sheets with individual photographs of students and staff in each school...
Dates: 1958-2012

Laboratory School Subject Files

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/09
Scope and Contents The material in this series was scattered throughout well over one hundred boxes before it was united here as a means of assisting researchers. Material in this series is organized down to the folder level, but processing continues on the contents of the folders themselves. These folders vary greatly in depth and breadth. Some present good runs of information; others consist of merely a page or two. There is also considerable overlap between and among folders. For example, work related to...
Dates: 1918-2012