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Segment on how mathematics are taught on the elementary school level, featuring a teacher giving a lesson in basic arithmetic to first graders. From the WTAR news special "The New Look in Education." No sound until 0:25. 0:07:20

Footage of high school students in a variety of classes, including typing and band, as well as studying in the school library. Featured in the footage is a teacher discussing the role of humanities in education. From the WTAR news special "The New Look in Education." No sound until 1:09. Segment cuts off at 1:40. 0:01:40

Compilation of footage for a special on the technical advances in education within Hampton Roads area schools. Topics such as space exploration and distance education are explored. Compilation of outtake/B-roll footage. 0:28:17

Segment on how elementary school lunches are prepared, especially the slices of pizza. Spaghetti and tacos are also a favorite among students. No sound at 0:12-0:18; 1:30-2:30. The location of the school cafeteria is unknown. 0:02:30

Memorandum to Division Superintendents from Robert T. Greene, Special Assistant, Technical Program, Virginia State Board of Education, requests that division superintendents keep the Technical Assistant Program updated with any matter related to local desegregation and/or integration efforts.

Memorandum to Division Superintendents from William H. Cochran, Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance, about the state Attorney General's opinion on the revised state Constitution andalso on statutes regarding school financing in the Commonwealth.

Letter to W. Roy Smith, Member, Virginia House of Delegates, from Andrew P. Miller, Attorney General of Virginia, discusses education Standards of Quality and funding. Miller maintains that the Basic School Aid Formula fails to take into account the current educational practices in the Commonwealth as required by the state Constitution.

Memorandum to Division Superintendents from William H. Cochran, Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance, and Everett B. Howerton, Assistant Superintendent for Administrative Field Services, discusses the Attorney General's opinion regarding the sale of School photographs and other goods to students.

Letter to Walter E. Campbell, Superintendent of Public Instruction, from Walter H. Ryland, Assistant Attorney General, discusses the Attorney General's opinion regarding the sale of School photographs and other goods to students.

Letter to the Honorable Mary A. Marshall, Member of the House of Delegates, from Anthony F. Troy, Attorney General of Virginia, concerning salaries of individual school board employees in regard to the Freedom of Information Act.

Nine-page Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in the Blackwell v. Fairfax County School Board desegregation court case. Thirty-one negro students applied for admission to previously all-white Fairfax County schools for the 1960-1961 school year. The Fairfax School Board approved five of the applications, rejected twenty-five and did act upon one of the applications. The twenty-five rejected applicants ask the court to enjoin the School Board's refusal as being based on race or color and therefore illegal. Judge Albert V. Bryan ruled that the schools accept nineteen of the applications and reject seven of the applications.

Five-page Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in the Clarissa S. Thompson, at al. v. the School Board of the Arlington County, Virginia school desegregation case.

Memorandum to Division Superintendents from Woodrow W. Wilkerson, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and William H. Cochran, Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance, discusses the wage-price freeze executive order and its impact on salary increases for Virginia's public school teachers.

Letter to Arnold R. Weber, Director of the Cost of Living Council, U. S. Treasury Department, from Andrew P. Miller, Virginia Attorney General, discusses the wage freeze order and how it relates to teachers' salaries.

Letter to Andrew P. Miller, Virginia Attorney General, from Elmer F. Bennett, General Counsel for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, discusses the effect of the wage-price freeze on teachers' salaries.

Memorandum to Division Superintendents from Woodrow W. Wilkerson, Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. G. Blount, Jr., Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance, and William H. Cochran, Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance regarding the wage-price freeze executive order and its impact on teacher salaries.

Memorandum to Division Superintendents from Woodrow W. Wilkerson, Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. G. Blount, Jr., Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance, and William H. Cochran, Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance regarding the wage-price freeze executive order and teacher salaries.

Memorandum to Division Superintendents from Woodrow W. Wilkerson, Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. G. Blount, Jr., Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance, and William H. Cochran, Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance discusses the wage-freeze stabilization order.

Memorandum to Division Superintendents from Woodrow W. Wilkerson, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and William H. Cochran, Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance concerning wage-price stabilization ad teacher salaries.

Four-page letter to E. L. Lamberth, Superintendent of Norfolk Schools, from Leonard H. Davis, Attorney for the City of Norfolk, about Acts pertaining to tuition grants/scholarships passed by the Virginia General Assembly and changes in the law which affect the payment of scholarships in Norfolk beginning March 13, 1965.