Education

Abstract A. Helen Anderson (1891-1975) was the Director of Publications for Denver Public Schools, Denver, Colorado (1929-1956) during the tenure of Superintendent Archie Threlkeld. Anderson taught at South High School in Denver from 1929-1956. She was an advocate for improved educational programs in the Denver area. Editorials, newspaper clippings and correspondence on public school controversies such as McCarthyism and school integration, assembled during A. Helen Anderson's tenure as Director...

Abstract Archie Loyd Threlkeld (1889-1967) was Assistant and Deputy Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools from 1921 to 1927 under Jesse H. Newlon. He was Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools for ten years, from 1927 to 1937. While Deputy Superintendent, A. L. Threlkeld directed the curriculum revision program that became internationally known. During the Great Depression, Threlkeld continued the school building program and successfully resisted cutting teachers' salaries. This...

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Black-Eagle Sun (aka Doug Curliss, BA, 1962) in a alum of the University of Denver (DU). The collection consists of a few of his personal papers.

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This collection contains records related to the Core Curriculum Program at University of Denver, now known as the Common Curriculum. Collection includes curricula, proposals, assessments, lab manual, and syllabi from 1977-2000.

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Collection contains reports, publications, grant proposals, memos, a contract, and department files related to the Department of Sociology at the University of Denver from 1980 through 1990.

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Collection contains the records of the environmental science program at the University of Denver. Includes memos, posters, degree program info sheets, newspaper clippings, and assessments.

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Hillel Academy of Denver is an Orthodox Jewish day school (yeshiva ketana) in which religious and secular instruction takes place for preschool through 8th-grade students. It was begun in 1953 and is part of a network of Orthodox day schools in the United States. The collection contains meeting minutes, administrative notes, scrapbooks, Annual Dinner programs, and appointment calendars of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Hillel Academy of Denver, Colorado, from 1963 through 1990.

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Collections contains records related to the Honors Program at the University of Denver. The bulk of the collection is honors theses arranged alphabetically by author.

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The Jewish Education Task Force was created in the Spring of 1988 to explore the problems and challenges faced by the community in the area of Jewish education, as a result of the 1987 seminar "Major Issues in Jewish Education" presented by the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA). Collection contains administrative paperwork from the Jewish Education Task Force and questionnaires from 14 Denver area Jewish educational schools and camps.

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This collection contains materials gathered by Joan Brown. The materials relate to her education at the University of Utah and the University of Colorado, her teaching career with the Denver Public Schools, and her time as Assistant Director of the Denver Public Schools Shakespeare Festival.