Margaret S. Marston Lampe
Papers, 1978-87, Ms91-003
Introduction:
Margaret S.Marston Lampe was born in Arizona in 1941, but has been a long-time resident of Arlington, Virginia. While active in numerous civic and community organizations, she has been most involved with educational issues on the state and national level. Her activities in the area of education have included: chair of the Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers; chair of the National Institute of Education Task Force on Educational Laboratories; and co-chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee of the National Association of State Boards of Education.
Ms. Lampe was selected as a member of the 18-person National Commission on Excellence in Education when it was established on August 6, 1981, by U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell. The purpose of the Commission was to "spearhead a major campaign to encourage all of America's schools, colleges, and universities to enhance excellence in education. The Secretary directed the Commission to "examine the quality of education in the United States and to make a report to the nation and to him within 18 months of its first meeting." The Commission's first meeting was October 9-10, 1981. Its final report, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, was issued on April 26, 1983. A "Nation at Risk" Third Anniversary Conference was held on April 25-26, 1986.
In 1986, Ms. Lampe was appointed by Virginia Governor Gerald L. Baliles to Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education. The Commission was charged with considering and recommending actions that would "place Virginia's public elementary and secondary schools into the first rank in education in the nation." The Commission had its impetus from recommendations from the 1984 Governor's Commission on Virginia's Future. The Commission issued its final report in October 1986.
From 1979 to 1987, Ms. Lampe served on the Virginia Board of Education. While serving on the board, she was especially concerned with the issues of textbook censorship and sex education in the schools. In 1988, she was named to the Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
This collection primarily consists of material concerning her involvement with these various education-related groups.
List of Contents:
Box 1:
National Commission on Excellence in Education
- Folder 1: Cooperative Education
- Folder 2: Briefing Material on Parents Role in Education (1982)
- Folder 3: Briefing Material for Regional Work Sessions (February 16 and 18, 1983)
- Folder 4: Statement by David P. Gardner, Commission Chairman, before U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (November 9, 1983)
Elementary and Secondary Mathematics
- Folder 5: Science, and Technology Education
- Folder 6: Briefing Material on Education of the Gifted and Talented Students
- Folder 7: Site Visit: Education for Gifted and Talented Students (October 14, 1982)
- Folder 8: Notes: "Equity and Excellence"
- Folder 9: College Curriculum: Shape, Influence, and Assessment (August 27-28, 1982)
- Folder 10: Public and Private Schools
- Folder 11-18: Reading Material
- Folder 19: Recommendations (March 25, 1983)
- Folder 20: Notes
- Folder 21: Final Report: Facing the Issues of Cooperative Education (Region III Hearing/Conference, October 11, 1982)
- Folder 22: Distribution of Final Report
- Folder 23: Final Report Draft (February 25, 1983)
- Folder 24: Final Report Draft (March 18, 1983)
- Folder 25: Final Report Draft (April 6, 1983)
- Folder 26: Final Report Draft
National Commission on Excellence in Education
- Folder 27: Forum on Recommendations (June 30, 1983)
- Folder 28: Comments
- Folder 29-31: Responses to Final Report
- Folder 32: Final Report Design
Box 2
National Commission on Excellence in Education
- Folder 33: Meeting, October 9, 1981
- Folder 34: Meetings: November 6, November 16, December 7, 1981
- Folder 35: Meeting, December 7, 1981
- Folder 36: Meeting, April 23-24, 1982
- Folder 37: Meeting, April 30, 1982
- Folder 38: Meeting, May 25, 1982 - Briefing Material
- Folder 39: Meeting, September 28-29, 1982
- Folder 40: Meeting, November 15-16, 1982
- Folder 41: Working Papers (January 20-22, 1983)
- Folder 42: Working Papers (February 1983)
- Folder 43: Work Session (March 2-4, 1983)
- Folder 44: Preliminary Classification of Notable Programs Profile: Post-Secondary
- Folder 45: Presentation by Stephen Bailey (1981)
- Folder 46: Perspectives on Excellence in Education - Briefing Material (February 1982)
- Folder 47-48: Hearing on Teaching and Teacher Education (May 11-12)
- Folder 49: Hearing on Teaching and Teacher Education Staff Summary
National Commission on Excellence in Education
- Folder 50: Hearing on Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education (March 11-12, 1982)
- Folder 51-52: Hearing on Language and Literacy - Briefing Material (April 16, 1982)
- Folder 53: Commissioned Paper: "Time on Task: A Research Review" by Nancy Karweit, (October 1982)
- Folder 54: Commissioned Paper: "Motivational Factors in School Achievement" by Martin Maehr, (October 26, 1982)
- Folder 55: Subcommittee Meeting (March 19, 1983)
- Folder 56: Statement Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education, U.S. House of Representatives (May 12, 1983)
- Folder 57: Secondary School Recognition Program
- Folder 58: "A Nation at Risk" Third Anniversary Conference (April 25-26, 1983)
- Folder 59: "A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform" (published copy of final report)
Box 3
National Commission on Excellence in Education
- Folder 60: Fact Sheet (February 1982)
- Folder 61: Correspondence
- Folder 62: U.S. Department of Education Regional Offices
- Folder 63: Photograph
- Folder 64: Overhead Presentation
- Folder 65: National Forum on Excellence in Education, 1983
- Folder 66: National Academy of Sciences Convocation on Pre-College Education in Mathematics and Sciences, 1982
- Folder 67: Project Equality
National Institute of Education Laboratory
- Folder 68: Study Group
- Folder 69: 20th Century Fund Conference on Merit Pay and Master Teacher Program, (November 4, 1983)
- Folder 70: Perspective Principal Assessment Centers (May 21, 1986)
- Folder 71: Distinguished School Board Panel
- Folder 72: National Business Consortium for the Gifted and Talented
- Folder 73: National Association of State Boards of Education
- Folder 74: U.S. Department of Education Secretary's Study Group on the Quality of Textbooks and Instructional Materials, 1984
- Folder 75: Virginia Plan for Equal Opportunity in State-Supported Institutions of Higher Education, 1983
- Folder 76: Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers (1976-79)
- Folder 77: Virginia Statewide Conference on Textbooks Reform, (May 8-9, 1986)
- Folder 78: Governor's Commission on Virginia's Future, 1982-83
Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education
- Folder 79: Plan of Action
- Folder 80: Correspondence
- Folder 81: "Report Card" (October 1989)
- Folder 82: Agendas, Minutes, and Supporting Documents
- Folder 83: Minutes, April 28, 1986
- Folder 84-85: Resource Materials
- Folder 86: Reading Material
- Folder 87: Newspaper Clippings
- Folder 88: "Excellence in Education: A Plan for Virginia's Future" (Final Report, October 1986)
- Folder 89: Commission on Arlington's (Virginia) Future
- Folder 90: Reports
- Folder 91: Education Taskforce
Box 4
Virginia Board of Education
- Folder 92: Organization and Functions (Briefing Paper Presented to Governor Baliles, 1986)
- Folder 93-100: Textbook Censorship
- Folder 101: Textbook Censorship - Correspondence
- Folder 102: Textbook Censorship - Newspaper Clippings
- Folder 103: Correspondence
- Folder 104: Title 22 Revisions
- Folder 105: Sex Education
- Folder 106: Newspaper Clippings
- Folder 107-108: Correspondence - General
- Folder 109: Newspaper Clippings - Education
- Folders 110-113: Newspaper Clippings - Margaret Lampe
- Folder 114: Newspaper Clippings - Margaret Sanger
- Folder 115: Photographs
- Video Tape: Goldberg/Marston, Fairfax High School (May 11, 1983)
- Republican Women's Leadership Forum (notebook)
- Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings and Articles
Box 5
- Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings and Articles
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