Oral history interview with Richard W. Riley, 2012
Oral history interview with Richard W. Riley, 2012
- Name
- Riley, Richard W. (Richard Wilson) (Interviewee)
- Farber, Myron (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Richard W. Riley, 2012
- Abstract
- Career: Governor of South Carolina from 1979-1987, chairman of state Democratic Party, chairman for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton's campaigns for presidency, U.S. Secretary of Education during Clinton administration, possible Supreme Court nomination (1994); problems in education in South Carolina; efficacy of Education Improvement Act; role of race and poverty in education reform; close relationsh ip with Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, including during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal; development and efficacy of programs: Common Core Standards, Carnegie Corporation of New York commission on early childhood education, Head Start Program, Opportunity Equation, Small Schools movement, charter schools, teaching effective teachers, online education, evaluation methods for student, teacher and school; influential colleagues at Carnegie Corporation: David Hamburg, Vartan Gregorian, Thomas H. Kean, Thomas R. Pickering, Michele Cahill, Bruce Alberts; comparison of design and efficacy of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top programs; ethics of foundation giving; current involvement with KnowledgeWorks Foundation of Cincinnati; benefits of being on the Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 3
- Subjects
- Education; Governors--South Carolina; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations--Political activity; Endowments; Gregorian, Vartan; Riley, Richard W. (Richard Wilson); Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 64 pages. + index; 1 digital audio file (116 min.)
- Note (Biographical)
- Governor of South Carolina.
- Note
- Interviewed by Myron Farber on September 18, 2012.
- Note (Provenance)
- Gift of Richard W. Riley
- Note (Copyright)
- Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2013.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 11291591
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-s28t-wm86
- Related URLs
- Transcript
- Available digital content for this interview.