The Governor and I agree on one thing – Maine needs stronger schools if we are going to attract and keep businesses and families in our beautiful state. At the very least our buildings need to serve the educational needs of students. We also need outstanding academic programming, high-quality professional development for teachers, fully staffed […]
Answers to the question of what the United States could do to improve the educational performance of our students are to be found in the current issue of OECD Observer, the magazine of The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Several articles in the current issue focus on education from an international perspective. The first […]
Our nation is in the midst of spending enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars developing complex evaluation systems for teachers that most educators would say are entirely unnecessary. A well-trained principal who is on her toes knows without the help of mathematically adjusted formulas who on her staff is performing effectively and who is not. The problem […]
Governor LePage’s recent distribution of grades to schools could be considered a call to action in the state of Maine. We certainly did not learn anything new from the list. We already knew that standardized testing scores usually reflect community wealth. However the list does do a nice job of shining a clear light on […]
