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- Description:
- Located at 815 Fairview Avenue Norrth. The State Administrative Board issued 10 acres to Lansing Board of Education in 1953 for Fairview Elementary. The school opened on September 9, 1954. It was located on ten acres where the Boys Vocational School once stood on Fairview Avenue North and bounded by Grand River Avenue. Additions were made in 1954 and 1961.
- Date Created:
- [1955 TO 1970]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- A group of unidentified men, most in white uniform, seated outside a campus building.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino MAC Postcard Collection
- Description:
- This is a 1938 booklet produced by the Lansing Public Schools for parents of students. An introductory note is signed by J. H. Sexton, then-superintendent. The booklet covers all aspects of educational activities in the Lansing schools, primarily social studies, science, home-making, physical education, cultural subjects, mathematics, and special consideration, which is a section on programs for special needs students. Many photographs are included.
- Date Created:
- 1938-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Beaulah Furgusen is pictured. Miss Hulme is the teacher.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This collection consists primarily of materials related to a complaint and lawsuit filed against the Ingham Intermediate School District in 1975. Also found are minutes from the Development of Learning Abilities Steering Committee, samples of educational materials, an Ingham ISD parent handbook on special education, Lansing School District report and summary on special education in the district, and an essay on the history of the MACLD by Joyce Laing. The Michigan chapter of the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities eventually became part of the Learning Disabilities Association of America, and the state chapter is known as the LDA of Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- MACLD Lansing Area Chapter
- Description:
- MSU undergraduate Goe Sheng Xiong discusses growing up as a child of Hmong immigrants. She describes how family dynamics among Hmong refugees effect education outcomes, and discusses reaching out to other second generation Hmong students through the MSU Hmong American Student Association.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama delivers a campaign speech at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, NV. Obama focuses on the importance of education saying all the new jobs will require higher education. He explains the link between education and personal and community prosperity. Obama suggests Mitt Romney will repeal funding for higher education, dropping affordable loans and grants and says the "doors of opportunity should be open to everyone, not only the rich".
- Date Issued:
- 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In an wide-ranging interview, Robert Repas, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations, remembers his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and how he became interested in labor issues and socialist causes. Repas recalls his first union jobs, studying economics in college and earning a degree from the University of Wisconsin. Repas says that he only later become interested in workers' education and goes on to recount his work in a variety of union related positions before coming to MSU in 1957. Repas is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University sophomore Wendy Pearson talks about her childhood in Detroit, her "barely integrated" grade school, her parents, attending Cass Tech High School, majoring in journalism, acclimating to college and roommates, and the importance of education in her family. Pearson also talks about aspiring to own a magazine, her reluctance to marry and have children, and the possibility of someday writing novels.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-11-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
