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Maine’S Superintendents’ Perceptions Of Proficiency-Based Education And Proficiency-Based Diploma Systems, Amy F. Johnson

Maine Education Policy Research Institute

Nationally, over the past few decades, standards-based school reform has taken root as a policy initiative and instructional model. This has advanced the use of learning standards and aligned assessments as a mechanism to bring consistency and clarity to public school curriculum and instruction, with the intention of raising student achievement. The adoption of the Maine Learning Results in 1997 marked Maine's entry into this new era of standards-based reform. For the past six years, school districts across the state of Maine had been in various stages of implementation of a 2012 law that required high schools to certify that …