Tehran American School
The Tehran American School (TAS) (1970s campus location) was an American international school in
History
The American school was established after the director of the
The senior high school division opened by 1960. In May 1973 the school had 1,400 students. The school's first campus, which opened in 1954, was later named the Sayed Khandan Campus in 1974. A new elementary and middle school campus, Lavizan Campus, opened in the fall of that year. In the fall of 1976, an athletic center and gymnasium opened. As of 1976, the school planned to open a new high school campus.[4]
At its peak, TAS was the largest American school outside the United States with about 2,000 students. The school closed due to disruptions that developed into the Iranian Revolution.[4] The last superintendent, i.e., principal of the entire school, Dr. William Keough, was seized in the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 in the course of shipping out the students' transcripts; the transcripts were never sent.[5] The TAS campus subsequently became an Iranian university, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University (SRTTU). The main mission of the Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University is educating the teachers for technical and vocational education schools in Iran.
Today the grounds have been rebuilt for the restricted use of the
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.[6]
Student body
See also
- Iran–United States relations
- United States Ambassador to Iran
References
- ^ PBS Frontline. November 5, 2012. Retrieved on September 15, 2015.
- ^ . "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[...]"
- ^ "Tehran Student Days Revisited". The New York Times. August 7, 2000. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved Jan 29, 2013.()
- ^ a b c "About Tehran American School." Tehran American School Association. Retrieved on September 22, 2016.
- ^ "Tehran American School Transcripts". Tehran American School Association. Retrieved on September 22, 2016.
- . "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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