Learning Standards and Guidelines
Standards | Content Area Resources | Initiatives | Rules & Guidelines
The Standards
Maine's 2007 Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction
Identifying the knowledge and skills essential to prepare Maine students for work, higher education, citizenship, and personal fulfillment.
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New England Common Assessment Program
Assessing Reading, Writing, and Mathematics in Grades 3-8
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The Common Core State Standards
A state-led effort establishing a single set of clear educational standards for English-language arts and mathematics that states can share and voluntarily adopt.
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Content Area Resources
Content-specific resources and support for educators, administrators, parents, and students.
Career and Education Development
English Language Arts
Health Education and Physical Education
Mathematics
Science and Technology
Social Studies
Visual and Performing Arts
World Languages
Initiatives
Standards-Based Education in Maine
Click here to learn about Maine’s current efforts to develop a standards-based system of education.
Maine Course Pathways
Developing a system to document that all high school students, through course syllabi, are given fair opportunity to demonstrate achievement of the Learning Results through multiple pathways that honor student choice, learning preferences and career aspirations.
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Middle Level Education in Maine
Providing middle level educators, parents, and policy makers with a clearer understanding of what is needed for high quality, equitable, and effective education for Maine’s 10 to 15 year olds.
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Other Rules and Guidelines
Maine Learning Results Rules Documents – Chapter 125 Basic Approval Standards: Public School and School Administrative Units; Chapter 127 Instruction Program, Assessment and Diploma Requirements.
UMS CollegeReady! Preparing for Success in Maine's Public Universities. This University of Maine System site has links for UMS expectations for college readiness in mathematics and writing and the UMS statement for college readiness.
Early Childhood Learning Guidelines in Word or in PDF - A guide for state and local early care and education practitioners’ efforts to improve early childhood professional practice and programs for young children ages three through their entrance into kindergarten.
Early Childhood Learning Guidelines Appendix in Word or in PDF
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