This PowerPoint explains how today's students must be able to compete and collaborate with high-achieving students from countries like China and India. It describes changing workforce trends in which managerial, professional, and technical jobs are outpacing blue collar jobs. The slides then detail Maine's business climate and outline strategies for redesigning high schools to better meet the state's economic needs. The author lays out the goals of the Maine P-16 task force, which include increasing access to college preparatory curricula, discontinuing outdated programs, promoting career awareness and preparation, supporting early college opportunities, and changing expectations.
States can use this as a model for improving academic rigor and persuading others that without high school redesign, states risk losing their economic standing.
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Background and Context
Providing leadership across a state's vast education system is a daunting challenge. In an era of increased accountability, the state's role is even more central to the teaching that takes place in each classroom throughout the state. Whether through the establishment and improvement of state data systems, or shifting the internal organization of the agency, states are undertaking a variety of efforts to provide stronger leadership.
