Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 8
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 […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 7
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 […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 6
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 2
Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part A(1)(iii): The state’s achievement goals and how stakeholder support “will translate into broad statewide impact.” Yesterday, I briefly described the school reform vision […]
Read More →Maine’s Race to the Top application due today
June 1 has arrived and applications for the second round of federal Race to the Top grants are due today, including Maine’s. Not wanting to tip its hand, the state […]
Read More →A big week for education in Maine
I don’t imagine most people even realized it, but there were two big developments this week in the world of K-12 education in Maine. The first, and bigger of the […]
Read More →Live Blogging the LD 1799 Stakeholder group’s last (?) meeting before the May 14 deadline…
3:20pm. It doesn’t seem as though this needed to be as hard as is turned out to be, but the A.G is happy and Maine’s RTT application WILL go forward. […]
Read More →Our new report on the New Haven model
As I promised in my last post, we’ve just released a new Issue Brief report on the new teacher evaluation model that was developed by the New Haven, Connecticut, public […]
Read More →New Haven teacher evaluation model may be salvation of stakeholder group
The infamous LD 1799 stakeholder group, which holds Maine’s hopes for a Race to the Top grant in its hands, has now met twice. The first meeting was something of […]
Read More →Reforming Teacher Pay in Maine – Part 1 How Alternative Teacher Compensation Systems are Improving Student Outcomes
Read the full report | The current effort to consolidate Maine’s many small school districts is the latest in a series of recent efforts to improve the state’s schools. During […]
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