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Learning Standards and Guidelines
When the Maine State Legislature adopted the Learning Results in 1996, it established learning standards for all Maine students educated at public expense. These grade span (PK-2, 3-4, 5-8, and 9-12) standards in career preparation, English language arts, health and physical education, mathematics, modern and classical languages, science and technology, social studies, and visual and performing arts identify the knowledge and skills essential to prepare Maine students for work, for higher education, for citizenship, and for personnel fulfillment. In addition, grade level expectations in reading and mathematics for grades 3, 5, 6, and 7 were developed in 2003-2004 and guidelines for early childhood were published in March of 2005.
Maine Learning Results - The Learning Results identify the knowledge and skills essential to prepare Maine students for work, for higher education, for citizenship, and for personal fulfillment. This document defines only the core elements of education that should apply to all students without regard to their specific career and academic plans.
Maine Learning Results Review - This mandated review offers the State a well-timed opportunity to anticipate future educational demands (20 years out) and to do the best job possible to fulfill the State’s responsibility to deliver a meaningful high-standards education to all students.
Maine Learning Results Rules Documents – Chapter 125 Basic Approval Standards: Public School and School Administrative Units; Chapter 127 Instruction Program, Assessment and Diploma Requirements.
Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) 3-8 - In December of 2001, President Bush signed into law the educational reform act, No Child Left Behind (NCLB). One of the key features of NCLB requires every state to test annually all students in grades 3-8 in reading and mathematics against individual state standards-in our state, the Maine Learning Results. States, such as Maine, that had only grade span standards were required to develop specific grade level expectations (GLEs) and clearly define what was to be assessed each year.
6th Grade GLEs: 7th Grade GLEs: 8th Grade GLEs:
