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Creating Flexibility In Teacher-Certification Policy To Ensure Quality And Equity, Flynn Ross
Creating Flexibility In Teacher-Certification Policy To Ensure Quality And Equity, Flynn Ross
Flynn Ross
As do many states, Maine has requirements and standards aimed at having “well-qualified” teachers. While few dispute the need for such standards, Flynn Ross brings attention to one case in Portland where use of a standardized exam to certify new teachers was preventing well-qualified—but culturally and linguistically diverse—teachers from becoming certified. She chronicles the successful attempts of one group to petition the Maine State Board of Education to allow greater flexibility in the testing standards. In doing so, she points to a larger truth that well-intentioned policy goals may seek to achieve a greater good, but may at the same …
Increasing Postsecondary Enrollments In Maine: Changes Needed In Higher Education Policies, David L. Silvernail
Increasing Postsecondary Enrollments In Maine: Changes Needed In Higher Education Policies, David L. Silvernail
David L. Silvernail
Why does Maine rank so low in higher education participation? What factors may be influencing whether Maine citizens pursue education beyond high school? Much of the debate to answer these questions has focused on students and described the problem as a lack of aspirations. David Silvernail provides another look at this issue. While student aspirations are important, Silvernail suggests that factors related to Maine's higher education system also may contribute to the problem of low enrollment. He compares Maine to six peer states and finds that for a number of factors such as cost and program accessibility, Maine ranks poorly. …
Penmel Adventures In Genealogy, Mel Regnell
Penmel Adventures In Genealogy, Mel Regnell
Mel Regnell
Results of tracing the Maine Sawyers and Bachelders back to the Revolutionary War. Artifacts from gathering family oral history, photos, documents and records, this site is a compilation of ten years of research and wandering through DownEast graveyards in Maine.