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Hamann, Edmund T.; Meltzer, Julie – Education Alliance at Brown University, 2005
Between 2001 and 2005, the state of Maine shifted the focus of its statewide high school improvement efforts to include an explicit focus on adolescent literacy. One trigger for that change in focus was a 5-school adolescent literacy initiative previously launched in a rural county under the federal Northeast and Islands Regional Educational…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Rural Areas, Rural Education