State looks at new high school requirements
Morning Sentinel, February 12, 2008
(excerpt) The department is billing the requirement changes as an effort to prepare Maine students for 21st-century jobs and technology. And the changes emphasize testing students in a variety of ways, rather than offering students one, high-stakes exam to determine whether they graduate from high school.
Reconfiguring graduation requirements is an effort to make those requirements more uniform across Maine's school districts.
Other changes would include a requirement that high school teachers develop course outlines reviewed by college faculty and business personnel; and a requirement that school systems develop individual learning plans tailored to each student.
Augusta schools Superintendent Cornelia Brown said the proposed changes leave key details to be determined by Education Commissioner Susan Gendron and not by local districts.
"There's a lack of specificity here," she said.
(excerpt) The department is billing the requirement changes as an effort to prepare Maine students for 21st-century jobs and technology. And the changes emphasize testing students in a variety of ways, rather than offering students one, high-stakes exam to determine whether they graduate from high school.
Reconfiguring graduation requirements is an effort to make those requirements more uniform across Maine's school districts.
Other changes would include a requirement that high school teachers develop course outlines reviewed by college faculty and business personnel; and a requirement that school systems develop individual learning plans tailored to each student.
Augusta schools Superintendent Cornelia Brown said the proposed changes leave key details to be determined by Education Commissioner Susan Gendron and not by local districts.
"There's a lack of specificity here," she said.
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