Category Archives: Schools

Dismantling public higher education, Maine style

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Emily Shaw

The mass layoffs currently coming to pass at the University of Southern Maine are the final moment of metal collision in the slow-motion train wreck we’ve been watching over the last couple of years. The USM faculty have been nauseously … Continue reading →

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Risky Business

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Emily Shaw

Thirty years ago this past April, a group of individuals appointed by President Reagan came out with a report that, like a tree falling into a river, has bent the flow of America’s perception of its public education system ever … Continue reading →

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Digging Deeper

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Emily Shaw

I continue to be fascinated by the  disconnect between the degree of detail available in ME DoE Data Warehouse information – and what is available in the “School Grades” data collection effort itself – and the really thoughtless application of … Continue reading →

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What can we learn from the ME DoE School Grades?

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Emily Shaw

Today’s much-anticipated release of the Maine Department of Education’s “School Grades” has provoked the similarly-anticipated, and likely intended, negative response from educators who called the grading system “flawed” in public and who-knows-what in private. The Maine Education Association has certainly … Continue reading →

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