Reading (Elementary) -- South Dakota

Scope and Contents Contains records from two federal grant-funded state-wide elementary and secondary education initiatives carried out between 1975 and 1984: Developing Basic Skills in the Schools, a collaborative model for integrating basic skills throughout the curriculum, and the South Dakota Right-to-Read Leadership and Training Project to improve literacy throughout the state. Records include program proposals and timelines, budget proposals, needs assessment overviews, reading standards summaries,...

Scope and Contents Contains circulars issued by the Office of the County Superintendent of Schools for distribution to McCook County teachers, school board members, and other county officials and employees between 1923 and 1933. Contents of the circulars include meeting, contest, examination, and other event notices; questionnaires; exam questions and curriculum guidelines; school statistics; lists of school officers; meeting agendas; and readings lists.

Scope and Contents This series contains records regarding the Teachers' Reading Circle, a South Dakota organization comprised of small, local circles and which had the goals of “improvement of members in literary, scientific and professional knowledge and the promotion of habits of self culture” and “encouragement of individual study in definite lines, by use of selected text books and by local circles.” The County Superintendent of Schools acted as manager of the organization and, with a board of elected...