Box 21

Teachers' Guides for K-2 from Texas Education Inventory; National Education Goals Panel report, "Exploring Rapid Achievement Gains in North Carolina and Texas," November 1998; resolutions adopted at AFT convention, "Beginning Reading Instruction" and "Early Intervention for Students with Behavioral Problems," July 19, 1998; summary of the Reading Excellence Act; full text of legislation; agendas/cover letters re task force meetings, summarizing reading materials; related reports

"Every Child Reading: An Action Plan of the Learning First Alliance," June 1998; correspondence re International Reading Association's criticism of AFT position

National Research Council pre-publication copy, "Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children," 1998; working draft of "Every Child Reading"; letter to the New York Times, criticizing coverage, from Judith Birsh, Columbia University Teachers College; related materials

Analyses of California and Texas reading programs; statement of G. Reid Lyons, National Institutes of Health, before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, July 10, 1997; handwritten notes

Tentative outline of policy document; handwritten notes; memo

State Education Department (SED) Early Literacy Profile (assessment instrument), n.d., c.1998; SED Essentials Elements of Reading draft and final version, 1999; correspondence and reaction forms re plans

Reading for Life 1997

Resolution (Special Order of Business #1) adopted at NYSUT Representative Assembly, May 1-2, 1997, endorsing early reading plan, including guaranteed access to pre-K for all four-year-olds