A report, "Toward a New Generation of Student Outcome Measures: Connecticut's Common Core of Learning Assessment" by Joan Boykoff Baron, Pascal D. Forgione, Jr. Douglas A. Rindone, Hanna Kruglanksi and Bruce Davey. Connecticut State, Department of Education, Division of Research, Evaluation and Assessment. 165 Capitol Avenue - Room 340. Hartford, Connecticut. Presented at American Education Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Part of Symposium 28.01 Beyond Effective Schools: Quality Indicators for Evaluation Schools and Districts. The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) has begun a multi-year assessment of the extent to which students in Connecticut display the knowledge and traits described in the Common Core of Learning (CCL). Science and mathematics were the two chosen subjects to be assessed under CCL.

Photocopy of a letter from Mollie Lasater to Bill McCarter about an upcoming Arts Education Workshop. Lasater provides an agenda that details the outline of the event. Originally the letter was addressed to a "Community Leader" but that was crossed out and "Bill" was written to the side.

Photocopy of a letter from D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter to Bob Crow concerning materials that were covered in a previous presentation. They are sending Crow copies of the information they covered in order to give him a better understanding of the NTIEVA program.They also express that they hope to have the Amon Carter Foundation involved in the program.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Bob J. Crow, Executive Director for the Amon G. Carter Foundation. In regards to Crow listening to a presentation Davis and McCarter gave about their discipline-based art education and are hoping that Crow and the Amon Carter Foundation will be involved with North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

A collective document that gives descriptions of foundations that provide grants for numerous organizations and programs of particular interests. This page is written about the Burlington Northern Foundation. The Burlington Northern Foundation offers grant support in arts & humanities, education, colleges & universities, and social services. These pages belong to the desk of Jack Davis, William McCarter and the members of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, as they researched foundations and charities to support their educational reform program.

A letter from Forrest E. Watson, superintendent of HEBISD, to Dr. D. Jack Davis, Vice President for Academic Affairs and co-director of the project. The letter addresses the HEBISD's continued support of the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

A letter from J. Blake DeHart to Dr. D. Jack Davis, Co-Director of project and Vice Provost at UNT. The letter is about the proposed North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and Denton ISD's support of the project and pledged involvement.

A thesis, Assessing Student Achievement in Art, A Study of The Feasibility of Achievement Testing in Art. Submitted to: The Getty Center for Education in the Arts, The J. Paul Getty Trust by Ralph Hoepfner, Ph.D. The report on feasibility of developing curriculum-fair achievement tests the art on both positive and negative notes. During the 1983-84 school year an achievement test was developed to assess the school children's knowledge.

Letter from Dale Seymour to Jack Davis regarding the development of SPECTRA at kindergarten level.

A memo from Vicki J. Rosenberg to regional institute planning grant applicants, informing applicants that there has been a delay in the Getty Center's Regional Institute Planning Grant application review process.

An agenda for the Getty Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE) In-Service Program at Greenwood Elementary School on March 6, 1987.

A letter from D. Jack Davis to Steven Dobbs about congratulating Dobbs on their promotion to Senior Program Officer for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts.

A press release issued by The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture on March 17, 1986, regarding a grant awarded by The National Endowment for the Humanities for a summer literature program for secondary school teachers.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, North Texas State University, to Edith O'Donnell, of the O'Donnell Foundation. In regards to Davis having completed the proposal for the Center for Study of Arts in Education at NTSU. Davis writes that the strong leadership of the arts education faculties at NTSU and the establishment of the Center will put them in a position to effect the quantity of the arts education programs they hope to implement. Davis ends the letter hoping that O'Donnell with review his proposal and get together to discuss any further ideas.