Interview with Hollis L. Caswell

About this book

Educator. Topics include: 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 Education 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.