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Scope and Contents List of members; discussion paper on State Education Department's position on teacher certification re technology and home and career skills, February 7, 1985; summary of Regents’ Action Plan, new Part 100 of Commissioner's regulations; letter from State Education Commissioner Gordon Ambach requesting review and comments re Part 100 Regulations implementing Regents’ Action Plan, with attached “Short Term Certification Issues Resulting from the New Part 100 of the Commissioner's Regulations,”...

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Minutes of December 16-17, 1988, meeting; memo from education commissioner to Regents recommending adoption of “The Regents Bill of Rights for Children: An Education Charter for the Decade of the Child,” September 8, 1988; report of the Commissioner's Task Force on Children and Youth at Risk, October 14, 1988; activity reports, agendas; correspondence; handwritten notes

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Report to NYSUT Executive Committee from president Tom Hobart describing program for educational improvement, approved by Board of Directors at December 1984 meeting; summary of task force meeting of November 30-December 1, 1984; meeting minutes, 1983; minutes of NYSUT Committee on Educational Issues, 1977-79

Scope and Contents Interim and final reports; cover letter to Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol from NYSUT Vice President Antonia Cortese, criticizing subject-oriented curriculum as damaging to self-esteem, with attached recommendations of task force, passed by NYSUT Board of Directors, June 1987; Second Year Report of the NYS Commission on Child Care, “Hard Questions/Straight Answers: Child Care Policy for New York State,” October 1986; memo re implementation plan for NYSUT policy on the hurried child,...

Scope and Contents State Education Department Bureau of Child Development and Parent Education publication, “Guidelines for Equipping an Early Childhood Classroom for 15 Four Year Olds,” July 1986; Testimony of Antonia Cortese, Second Vice President, NYSUT, to the Assembly Hearing on the Need for School Age Child Care, October 15, 1984; elementary science syllabus; NYS Department of Social Services Request for Proposals for School-Age Child Care Programs, April 4, 1986; NYSUT position papers re school-age...

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State Education Department Bureau of Child Development and Parent Education papers, June 1982: “Philosophical Base,” “Play,” “Continuity,” “Transitions and Routines,” “A Good Day for Young Children”; policy papers and article reprints.

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Detailed meeting agendas.

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The New York Report: A Blueprint for Learning and Teaching: Report of the Commissioner's Task Force on the Teaching Profession, March 1988; charge to the State Education Department Task Force on the Teaching Profession; NYSUT list of questions and answers on key issues; related memos, meeting agendas

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Report of the Commissioner's Task Force on the Teaching Profession

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November, 1987. RAND Corporation study