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Full-Text Articles in Education
Torch (November 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (November 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Torch (September 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (September 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Torch (June 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (June 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Maine’S Charter School Law: Predicted Impacts On Waynflete School Enrollment, Kelsey Robinov
Maine’S Charter School Law: Predicted Impacts On Waynflete School Enrollment, Kelsey Robinov
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
The aim of this study is to predict the impacts of Maine’s recently enacted charter school law on the enrollment at Waynflete School, a private co-educational day school in Portland, Maine. National data on current public and private school enrollment trends were examined, as well as existing data on the effects of charter schools on enrollments at these schools. The intent at looking at this data will be to determine what, if any, factors can predict in what areas charter schools are likely to flourish and pull students from private schools in significant numbers and to compare the characteristics of …
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 …
Torch (April 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (April 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Torch (February 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (February 2014), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Relationship Between School Poverty And Student Achievement In Maine., David L. Silvernail Phd, James E. Sloan, Chelsea R. Paul, Amy F. Johnson Phd, Erika K. Stump Phd
The Relationship Between School Poverty And Student Achievement In Maine., David L. Silvernail Phd, James E. Sloan, Chelsea R. Paul, Amy F. Johnson Phd, Erika K. Stump Phd
School Funding - Essential Programs and Services (EPS)
This Brief presents the findings from a series of analyses designed to explore the connections between poverty and student achievement in Maine schools. It explores how poverty and performance are related, and examines other school and student characteristics that may be connected to student performance.
Interview With Doug Hall On The Role Of Training In Innovation, Margo Lukens, Doug Hall
Interview With Doug Hall On The Role Of Training In Innovation, Margo Lukens, Doug Hall
Maine Policy Review
In this interview, Doug Hall gives his current thinking on the teaching of innovation and the urgency for doing so. Hall has been working in the field of innovation for most of his career. He has served as partner and mentor in the University of Maine’s program which offers an Innovation Engineering minor open to undergraduate students in any major and a certificate for graduate students. Hall says that “the world of the guru is done” and that “companies, colleges, and countries need to empower their people to lead the transformation from the inside out.”
Creative Pathways Through High School: A Response To John Dorrer, “Do We Have The Workforce Skills For Maine’S Innovation Economy?”, Sylvia Most
Maine Policy Review
In this commentary on a recent Maine Policy Review article by John Dorrer, the author asks whether Maine is on the right track in its current emphasis on “college for all.” Her commentary suggests that students and employers might be better served by revisiting an earlier model of providing more vocational education opportunities.