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March 2011

• A last mark for The Report Card

February 2011

• A clearer funding picture, and the Common Core's return

January 2011

• Rewriting No Child Left Behind: What to expect
• Recurring themes, fresh outlook on education
• National pressure on Maine to allow charters
• The debate on administration, and the latest on the top administrator
• Private funding for "student-centered" learning
• Landing on the staff, not in the cabinet
• Education and the inauguration

December 2010

• Baldacci-era reforms in a new age
• Adapting to inevitability

November 2010

• Home schooling, education jobs and Social Security: An education roundup
• A change in circumstances, and a change of heart

October 2010

• Tonight, students challenge the candidates
• MEA's endorsement and Mitchell
• Worries of the administrative realm

September 2010

• What's next for Maine students' Social Security numbers?
• Paying for performance, indirectly
• Beyond pay incentives
• Will there be evaluation momentum?
• Same SAT scores. Same questionable comparison?
• It had to be asked sooner or later
• Short of completely empty, and a chance to influence

August 2010

• UPDATE: Fact-checking Paul LePage, and Common Core's tangled web
• How much and when?
• Zeroing in on "value added"
• Sierra Club: Maine has 3 "Cool Schools"
• Maine joining SSN ranks. Will parents go along?
• Some loose ends tied this week in Maine education
• Six in Maine go for i3
• A steeper cliff after EduJobs
• MEA and the favorable incumbents; updates to a data repository

July 2010

• One federal pot out of reach, another in flux
• Ed Week: Maine's Race to the Top fate will be known tomorrow
• New graduation rates released, little gained so far
• An updated student-teacher ratio, and updated inconsistencies
• Reformist v. status quo, and a tempering force

June 2010

• Could Race to the Top shrink?
• Midcoast project earns "pilot project" designation
• What the heck is Maine's student-teacher ratio?
• UPDATED: MEA announces it's Mitchell. Anyone surprised?
• On buy-in, below average
• Initial thoughts on a LePage v. Mitchell match-up
• Innovations that don't fit the national mold: Maine and Race to the Top
• Performance-based evaluations from the bottom up
• Choice phrasing in Race to the Top

May 2010

• Breaking down buy-in
• For after-school programs, a risk apart from grant bungling
• Building buy-in: Maine at 68 for 215 and 14 for 55
• Choosing the evaluation panel's future
• Maine is in Race to the Top running
• Is MEA warming to Race to the Top?
• UPDATED: Will the budget referendum stay in place?
• Who knew? Department of Education stands in liberty's way
• Bold approaches beyond pilot-project phase
• Not down to 80, but getting closer
• Baldacci claiming credit where it's undue
• Not only plagiarism from Otten, but a lack of facts

April 2010

• A tiff of irony, a question of purpose, and the administrators' absence
• Teacher evaluation catch-up and the would-be's on education
• A big week in Maine education
• 'Conversations' amid shadows
• A barrier comes down? A few more thoughts
• UPDATE: Sticking to the 'poison pill'
• UPDATE: Amended bill wouldn't do the trick
• UPDATE: More than Race to the Top hangs in the balance
• Hanging in the balance
• Evaluating teachers? Choose from one of the following

March 2010

• Highlights from the data drop
• What do Delaware and Tennessee mean to Maine?
• 'A personal journey for next generation learners'
• Channeling consolidation's energy in Hancock County
• Innovating within existing infrastructure
• A model charter school law
• Preparing for another charter schools battle
• Will Maine stand a chance in Race to the Top?