Students from more than 30 Maine schools will participate in testing as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) this school year.
Commissioner’s Update – Dec. 1, 2011
This week, we’ve launched an expanded and growing web page where we’ll continue to post details about our efforts to secure NCLB flexibility. Soon, that page will also have details about how you can have your say in the process.
Early post-secondary survey results published
The specially appointed task force exploring the expansion of early post-secondary education opportunities for high school students has completed a survey of the state’s high schools that intends to gauge existing opportunities and areas for expanding such opportunities.
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Maine DOE welcomes social studies content specialist
The Maine Department of Education once again has a staff member specializing in social studies instruction.
Kristie Littlefield began work this fall as the Department’s social studies content specialist and liaison to the Western Maine superintendents’ region.
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Regional teacher events to focus on new science standards
Note: Additional forums have been scheduled since the initial publication of this announcement. Those forums marked by an * are new additions to the schedule.
Science teachers and others are invited to attend a “Dine and Discuss” event in their region in December or January to learn about the recently released “Framework for K-12 Science Education” document from the National Academies of Science and the upcoming development of the Next Generation Science Education Standards.
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Participants sought for local Math-in-CTE in 2012-13
Superintendents:
If you are concerned with the mathematics skills of your local secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) students and if you have not met your federal performance indicators in CTE, consider participating in a local-level pilot of the successful national Math-in-CTE program.
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The upside of not being first
Sometimes, it’s OK if we’re not first.
In fact, it offers Maine an advantage when it comes to preparing an application for flexibility from provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Research internships available for high school juniors
The Maine Space Grant Consortium has funds available to support a limited number of summer research internships for highly motivated Maine high school juniors during the summer of 2012.
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Six testify at charter schools rule hearing
The Maine Department of Education held a public hearing on Nov. 22 to receive public comment on its proposed rule chapter governing public charter schools.
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Students compete to represent Maine in Youth Senate
Nine students from Maine high schools competed in Augusta on Nov. 18 for the honor to travel to Washington, D.C., in March 2012 to represent their home state in the United States Senate Youth Program.
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