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National Board for Professional Teaching Standards  

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  • In 1985 the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Albert Shanker, recommended that a national teaching standards and evaluation board be established. The following year, the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy created a task force on teaching as a profession. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; National Board for Professional Teaching Standards]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W746MQG7-8

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