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Maine’S Superintendents’ Perceptions Of Proficiency-Based Education And Proficiency-Based Diploma Systems, Amy F. Johnson
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 …
Proficiency-Based High School Diploma Systems In Maine Educator Perceptions Of Implementation, Amy F. Johnson, Erika Stump
Proficiency-Based High School Diploma Systems In Maine Educator Perceptions Of Implementation, Amy F. Johnson, Erika Stump
Maine Education Policy Research Institute
In 2012, the Maine legislature passed a bill requiring public school districts to implement proficiency-based high school diploma requirements. Amendments were passed in subsequent years, and several additional bills related to this policy were introduced in the most recent 128th Legislative Session in early 2018. These bills were considered by the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs, but have not yet had final action by the full Maine legislature at the time of this report's publication. Beginning in 2012, the Maine Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs has annually requested that the Maine Education Policy …