American School in Tehran

The American School in Tehran was an American international school in Tehran, Iran. It was founded in 1954, and it held its final classes in 1978.[1] The school, affiliated with the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, served grades K–12 in a coeducational manner and used English as the language of instruction. It had 1,500 students.[2]

History

The American school was established after the director of the Community School, Tehran, Richard Irvine, announced in 1953 that the school was going to limit the number of Americans enrolled to preserve a balance in the cultures among the student body.[3]

Library

The school library had 18,000 volumes. John F. Harvey, a visiting professor at Motahedin University in Vanak, Iran, stated that the American school had "[p]robably the best school library" in Iran.[2] According to Harvey, the American School's library was the first modern school library in Iran.[4]

Student body

PBS Frontline stated that historically most students did not have very many Iranian friends and "led lives fairly isolated from Iranian society"; at the same time they developed emotional connections to the host country.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Egherman, Tori. "Notebook | The Last Days of the Tehran American School" (Archive). PBS Frontline. November 5, 2012. Retrieved on September 15, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Harvey, John F. (Motahedin University). "School libraries in Iran." In: Carroll, Frances Laverne. "School Library Development in Other Countries." Recent Advances in School Librarianship: Recent Advances in Library and Information Services (Volume 1 of Recent advances in library and information services). Elsevier, May 20, 2014. ISBN 1483157687, 9781483157689. Section start (identifies the author): p. 179. CITED: p. 181. "Probably the best school library was operated 1950–78 by the private Tehran American School which was affiliated with the U.S. Embassy and taught in English, grades K-12. A full-time American librarian supervised this 1500 student coeducational school[...]"
  3. ↑ "Tehran Student Days Revisited". The New York Times. August 7, 2000. Retrieved Jan 29, 2013. (Archive)
  4. ↑ Harvey, John F. (Motahedin University). "School libraries in Iran." In: Carroll, Frances Laverne. "School Library Development in Other Countries." Recent Advances in School Librarianship: Recent Advances in Library and Information Services (Volume 1 of Recent advances in library and information services). Elsevier, May 20, 2014. ISBN 1483157687, 9781483157689. Section start (identifies the author): p. 179. CITED: p. 179. "While Iran has had school libraries for many years, modern school library ideas arrived only in 1950 with the opening of the Tehran American School."

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