FROM THOSE WHO REMEMBER

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Go comment! Love the skeleton of this page. Thanks for doing this. I think and hope this will serve as a great place for alumni to remember our school fondly. I also love the commemorative plaza and monument idea. I feel like this page is offering a healthy, constructive outlet for everyon...

My first grader and I trying to save the school

Go comment! My first grader and I made this video when people were trying to save the school.
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My most salient memory

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My most salient memory of my twenty years as a teacher at Price Laboratory School is of the people: the children, their parents, my co-teachers, the student teachers and university students, and the many visitors who came from near and far to watch us teach and talk with us ...

MY LAB SCHOOL REMEMBRANCE

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In 1962, when I was 5 years old and entering kindergarten at the Malcolm Price Laboratory School, I had no idea who John Dewey was, or the meaning of “education through experience.”  All I knew was that a great new adventure awaited, and I wanted to be a par...

Remembering MPLS

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Remembering MPLS, where do I start?  My parents enrolled my siblings and me at the Campus School in 1954 sometime in the fall of the year.  We moved from Waterloo to Cedar Falls during my second-grade year and that’s where I received my elementary and seconda...

Price lab School: Student Teachers Teaching Students

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I was a K-through-12 “lab rat” at Malcolm Price Lab School.  Sounds pretty pejorative, but I take it as a badge of honor and privilege: we were in a laboratory school for a teachers college. 

What good fortune to be in a school that so prized ed...