SEARSPORT – Representatives from more than 40 schools in Maine, Canada, Scotland and elsewhere have toured Searsport District High School over the past year.
Their mission?
Learn from a rural school of about 200 students – more than 60 percent of whom qualify for free- and reduced-priced lunches – that has executed a transformation by shifting entirely to a system of standards-based education.
Continue reading “Searsport stays ahead of the curve on standards”
PORTLAND — Reiche Community School is preparing to make history in a few months.
When summer vacation ends and classes resume, teachers, students and staff members will return to an elementary school without a principal.
Instead, the teachers will be in charge.
ORONO – Joe Lien didn’t follow the conventional path to graduation at Poland Regional High School. But after four years, he’s a graduate with plans to enlist in the U.S. Navy and attend college after that.
The following is excerpted from a Maine Department of Agriculture press release.
AUGUSTA — Annette Caldwell and Gretchen Kimball, teachers at the Buckfield Junior/Senior High School in Buckfield, Maine, have received one of five top awards in the nation for “Excellence in Teaching about Agriculture.” This award is offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Agriculture in the Classroom (NAITC) Consortium. Teachers from all 50 states are eligible.
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PORTLAND – When Mike McCarthy took over as King Middle School’s principal in 1988, students were segregated into five groups based on perceived ability: “challenged,” “remedial,” “below average,” “average” and “advanced.”
Test scores were below the state average, and teachers accorded students different treatment based on the group to which they were assigned.
Continue reading “King Middle turns around with expeditions”
PORTLAND – The junior class at Casco Bay High School has spent the past year delving into all aspects of Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and those two disasters’ effects on the people of Biloxi, Miss.
Continue reading “At Casco Bay, expeditions foster engagement”
Too many Maine students require remedial courses once they reach college, and too many are dropping out before they earn degrees.
That’s bad news for the state’s future economic prospects, Gov. Paul LePage writes in a guest column published June 6 in the New England Journal of Higher Education. Continue reading “LePage: Postsecondary success starts before college”
Mike Rodway discovered as a sixth grader that he learns best through filmmaking. Since then, Rodway’s filmmaking passion and production prowess have taken off.
When it comes to computer programming, Chris Jones has become a global citizen.
A junior at Oak Hill High School in Wales, Jones has collaborated with programmers from Egypt, Brazil and elsewhere on a variety of ventures.
Continue reading “From MLTI student to international programmer”
ORONO – When Hannah Potter returned from a summer camp that joined American teenagers with their Iraqi counterparts, she wanted her classmates at Yarmouth High School to share in the experience.
