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Box 26

 Container

Contains 45 Results:

AFT Meeting (Standards), September-October 2003, 2003

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents

Printed bound book, "Educating Democracy: State Standards to Ensure a Civic Core," by Paul Gagnon, 2003, Albert Shanker Institute; Skill Standards for Frontline Workers in Education and Training; No Child Left Behind publications

Dates: 2003

AFT Standards & Assessment Working Group 2002-2003, 2002-2003

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents

Draft agenda; discussion papers, including "Scientifically based research and the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Program," U.S. Department of Education, August 2002

Dates: 2002-2003

AFT PPC Standards 2002, 2002

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents

Memos re PreK-12 PPC (Program and Policy Council) Standards & Assessments Working Group

Dates: 2002

Standards. AFT 1996, 1996

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents Printed booklet, "Setting Stronger Standards: AFT's criteria for judging the quality and usefulness of student achievement standards," June 1996; letter from Albert Shanker commenting on New Standards Project, June 21, 1996; press release, "New AFT Report Shows Progress on Academic Standards, Problems Still Remain: Report Assesses Quality Standards Bring Developed in 50 State," August 6, 1996; "Making Standards Matter 1996" Talking Points for AFT State Leaders,...
Dates: 1996

Standards & Assessment Conference 2002, 2002

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents

Agenda, workshop descriptions, and related materials

Dates: 2002

Standards & Assessments 2001, 2001

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents

State Education Department field memo to all teachers explaining how test scores are determined, September 2001; newspaper clipping re "dumbed-down" Regents biology test, quoting Cornell and other experts, Buffalo News, August 23, 2001; NYSUT charts of priority issues and solutions, with cover letter from Cortese to NSYUT Executive Committee, November 8, 2001; mean scores for 8th grade English and math, 1999-2001; NYSUT Guide the New Standards

Dates: 2001

South Africa Trip (folder 3 of 5) September 24-October 15, 1983, 1983

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

AFT report, "Teacher Organizing in South Africa: A Report and Some Proposals," May 12, 1982; Georgetown University International Labor Program paper, "Black Labor as a Swing Factor in South Africa's Evolution," by Roy Godson, spring 1979; Africa Fund (associated with the American Committee on Africa) paper, "Black Unions in South Africa," 1982 (?); unclassified 1980 Annual Labor Report to the U.S. Department of State from Amcongen Johannesburg, April 16, 1981;

Dates: 1983