Skip to main content
 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8

Basic Skills (includes NJ State Proposals),, 1976-1978

Dates

  • 1976-1978

Scope and Contents

Bulk dates 1977.

Contents include reports, memoranda, correspondence, and statistical reports all concerned with the general issue of decline in the caliber of students and their lack of proficiency in basic skills. Documents represent DC's response to state directives and initiation of Basic Skills Assessment Program.

Noteworthy is Dean Cobb's establishment of a Task Force on Basic Skills and hosting of a conference on the subject. Also included is a discussion of the issue of remedial education and whose job it is - secondary or higher education?

Language of Materials

From the Sub-Group:

English.

Part of the Rutgers University Archives Repository

Contact:
Rutgers University Libraries
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick NJ 08901-1163
848-932-7510
732-932-7012 (Fax)