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Binder contents including correspondence; preliminary report, draft legislation, testimony by Commissioner of Education Gordon Ambach, and other materials on libraries; articles and correspondence on student basic competency tests

Binder contents listing committee members, agendas, minutes, draft policy statements and papers, including testing teacher competence; testimony by NYSUT Vice President Antonia Cortese before the Senate Minority Task Force on Education of the Gifted Child, February 20, 1979; testimony to the Board of Regents by Elaine Stoddard, executive chairman, NYS Coordinating Council for the Education of the Gifted/Talented, September 7, 1979; report of NYSUT Teacher Stress Survey, November 1979

Draft policy paper on standards and implementation, with comments from individual committee members

Report of NYSUT Division of Research and Educational Services, covering class size, teacher aides, alternative schools, school volunteer programs, instructional innovation and experimentation, instructional television (Project ICEIT), project redesign, career education, alternative salary structures, and teacher evaluations