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Letter to NYSUT president Tom Hobart from State Education Department re forum

Scope and Contents Letter to NYSUT president Hobart from State Education Department re forum, September 18, 2000; memo from Cortese to NYSUT Board of Directors re developing NYSUT policy statement for forum; "Statement by NYSUT for the Statewide Forum on Standards Implementation," October 23, 2000; report on status of Education Department's plans for limited-English proficiency students; national comparison of exit-level high school math examinations; SED press release, "Vast Majority of High School Seniors...

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"School Leadership for the 21st Century," Statement of the Blue Ribbon Panel on School Leadership, March 2000 (Commissioner Mills, chair); State Education Department publication, "Teaching to Higher Standards: New York's Commitment," July 1998; UFT Statement on Standards Implementation; related materials

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Statement by NYSUT for the Statewide Forum on Standards Implementation, October 23, 2000; State Education Department proposal to revise graduation requirements, November 14, 1997; SED brochures re general education and diploma requirements, September 2000

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Materials for symposium on performance assessment, "Multiple Choices: Reforming Student Testing in NYS," 1991

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NYSUT policy statement; correspondence; articles re national assessment standards

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Newspaper clippings and trade journal articles

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Drafts of final report; description of Schools Without Walls

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Facilitative correspondence from vp Cortese re next meeting

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Memo from vp Cortese outlining agenda for July 20, 1990, meeting of Ad Hoc NYSUT Task Force on Student Assessment; attendance sheet for July 20 meeting; summary notes from May 23 meeting; summary of future plans, June 22; New York Campaign for Genuine Accountability in Education (American Reading Council, FairTest, and NYPIRG) Statement to Urge a Ban on Standardized Testing of Young Children, sent by NYPIRG to NYSUT task force