NCTE/Reading Task Force Files, 1994-1998 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Reading Task Force Files contains correspondence, memorandum, news clippings, agenda items, congressional testimony from Barbara Ruggles (American Federation of Teachers), Janet Nicholas (California State Board of Education), Robert E. Slavin (Co-Director Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk), Richard L. Venezky (Unidel Professor of Educational Studies), Andrew Hayes (University of North Carolina at Wilmington), Herbert Walberg (University of Illinois at Chicago), Joseph F. Johnson (Director, Collaborative School Improvement), supporting documents, meeting notes, and statements of opposition to the Reading Excellence Act of 1994 (Assembly Bill 1086).