Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 12
Part F of the state’s Race to the Top application is a catch-all section touching on school funding, charter schools, and other school reform approaches that may not have been […]
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Section E of the state’s Race to the Top application deals with “turning around the lowest-achieving schools,” and is divided into two sections. In the first section, the state must […]
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On Wednesday, I expressed the hope that some stronger sections are coming in the state’s Race to the Top application, and after looking at sections D(4) and D(5), one of […]
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Part D(3) of the state’s Race to the Top application is related to “ensuring equitable distribution of effective teachers and principals,” by which the Obama administration means ensuring “that students […]
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Part D (2) of the Race to the Top application has to do with “improving teacher and principal effectiveness based on performance.” This single section of the application is worth […]
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In a recent paper on Maine’s chances of winning a Race to the Top grant, I wrote that the “Great Teachers and Leaders” section of the RTT application was “real […]
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Part C of the state’s Race to the Top application deals with the state’s data system, something that is a main focus of the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 5
The second major section of the Race to the Top application relates to “standards and assessments,” and while this section of the application is rather long, there isn’t a whole […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 4
The last part of the first section of Maine’s Race to the Top application relates to how well the state has done “over the past several years” at improving student […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 3
In Part 3 of my series on Maine’s Race to the Top application, we look at section A(2) of the application, which has to do with the state’s capacity to […]
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