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Scope and Contents Draft proposed regulation, "Annual Professional Performance Review," January 4, 1999; preliminary draft, February 14, 1999, re new regulations on teacher certification to implement the new teaching policy adopted by the Regents on July 16, 1998; brochure by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, "Investing in the Future: What Policymakers Can Do," and "What Every Teacher Should Know: the National Board Certification Process Q&A, 1998-1999";...

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Drafts for comments of "Model Standards for Beginning Teacher Licensing and Development: A Resource for State Dialogue," developed by Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (and its Mathematics Subcommittee), Chief State Schools Officers Council; "Next Steps: Moving Toward Performance-Based Licensing in Teaching"

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Pre-publication and final copies of AFT "Making Standards Matter 1997: An Annual Fifty-State Report on Efforts to Raise Academic Standards"; draft report, "Standards-Based Reform in New York State," National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators, developed for U.S. Department of Education; draft State Education Department document, "Update on New York State's Overall Strategy for Raising Standards," March 18, 1997, with cover letter to NYSUT research director Chuck Santelli

Scope and Contents Regents discussion paper re participation of parents and teachers in school- based planning and shared decision making, October 10, 1991; proposed regulations, October 29, 1991; NYSUT letter to local presidents urging lobbying Regents in opposition to aspects of plan, November 5, 1991; "School Reform," re standards, American Educator, 1994; AFT list of criteria for high standards, with cover memo to NYSUT Board of Directors from Cortese, November...

Scope and Contents Memo to 1997 Business Council Annual Meeting Education Panelists, Education Commissioner Mills, NYSUT vp Cortese, and others re annual meeting; "Getting By: What American Teenagers Really Think about Their Schools: A Report from Public Agenda," 1997; NYSUT report, "Understanding and Preparing for the New Board of Regents Student and School Accountability System," n.d.; document re Virginia's standards of learning; typed notes with handwritten comments from presentation on standards; article...

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AFT information packet; NYSUT press release, "Blowing the Whistle on Education's 'Open Secret,'" re school administrators pressuring teachers to give passing grades to students who haven't earned them, March 3, 1994; U.S. General Accounting Office report to the chairman, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress: "Skill Standards: Experience in Certification Systems Shows Industry Involvement to be Key," May 1993

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Excerpts from speech delivered at American Sociological Association, "Developing National Standards in Education," by Diana Ravitch, August 22, 1992; excerpt from April 1985 Educational Researcher, "Standards, Curriculum, and Performance: A Historical and Comparative Perspective"

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"AFT Background Paper on National Standards and Assessments," n.d., c. 1992; "Raising Standards for American Education: A Report to Congress, the Secretary of Education, the National Education Goals Panel, and the American People," by the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, January 24, 1992; AFT resolution on national education standards and assessments, 1992; columns by Albert Shanker

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Excerpt from "Curriculum Evaluation and Standards for School Mathematics," prepared by the working groups of the Commission on Standards for School Mathematics of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; draft excerpt, "Standards in United States History, Grades 5-8: Revolution and the New Nation," from Guidelines for Developing Standards in U.S. and World History, National Council for History Standards

Scope and Contents Issues of Education Daily re Bush I administration national test proposal; letter to Cortese from U.S. Secretary of Education thanking her for service on National Test Panel to develop test specifications, March 6, 1998. See also: Fair Test; See also: Student Assessment; See also: ...