Oral history interview with Hollis L. Caswell, 1968
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Hollis L. Caswell, 1968
Abstract
Family, education; experiences as graduate student at Teacher's College (TC); consultant to Southern state departments of education, General Education Board; school surveys, curricula, national associations; return to TC, 1937-1962: head of department of curriculum and teaching, 1937-1947, director, division of instruction, 1938-1950, president, 1954-1962; relations with Fund for Advancement of Edu cation and Carnegie Corporation; teaching as a profession, teachers' unions, trustees, administration; travel; consultant to WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA; retirement. Vignettes of James Russell and William Russell, Professor George Strayer, James B. Conant and many others in education
College presidents; Educators; Education; Caswell, Hollis L. (Hollis Leland), 1901-1988; Carnegie Corporation of New York; General Education Board (New York, N.Y.); Columbia University. Teachers College
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1968
Physical Description
262 pages
Note (Biographical)
Educator
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit