State, Federal Academic Plans Implement Similar Standards

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There are a number of misconceptions surrounding the new federal education reform law, including the idea that No Child Left Behind sets academic standards that are different from Maine's own performance measures.

In fact, Maine uses its own Learning Results standards to gauge student achievement under No Child Left Behind, said Julian Haynes, a former legislative aide for education who worked for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in Washington when the controversial bill was being crafted.

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State, Federal Academic Plans Implement Similar Standards

"Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act is implementing the Maine Learning Results," said Haynes during a recent interview.

Now an academic planner at Husson College in Bangor, Haynes advised Collins on education issues between 1997-2001 and was ac...

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