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Now retired as an educator, Dr. Raymnond Rombone was for 35 years an instructor and the K-12 District Director of English Language Arts, Social Studies, Foreign Languages, ESL, Libraries, Reading, and Compensatory-ed Programs for the Carle Place Union Free School District, Long Island, New York, where he also wrote state and federal grants necessary to fund the district's compensatory programs. As author of the "Carle Place Public Schools Style Sheet for Writers of Research Papers," he regularly updated it according to APA and MLA standards and for on-line and nonstandard sources. The manual was the go-to document for the writing process in general and term papers, argumentative essays, literature essays, and other writing forms in particular. He also developed the school district's portfolio process, which documents the literacy requirement for graduation. In addition, he served in Albany on the New York State Education Department's task force to redesign the New York State Curriculum Standards and overhaul the three-hour English Regents examination; for the latter, he was instrumental in developing the format for the new "Critical Lens" essay question, for which students must develop a literature essay focusing on literary criticism.
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