RG 21. Price Laboratory School

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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.

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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.

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:...

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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.

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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.

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...

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...

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...

Scope and Contents This collection is strong from at least two points of view. First, it documents Professor Finkelstein's career at the University of Northern Iowa. It records in depth her innovations at the Laboratory School, often from local, early proposals for enhancements in her own classroom all the way to the scholarly documentation of her findings. As a bonus, the collection also includes the tangible classroom results in the form of a selection of the artwork and writing of her students. The material...

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This collection consists of two copies of the program for the show, "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," performed March 24, 2018 by the Cedar Falls Community Theatre. Gish starred in the production and signed one of the programs.