News & Issues piece on results of the Maine Educational Assessment (MEA) from

News & Issues piece on results of the Maine Educational Assessment (MEA) from 1998-99, which were released last week. The 1998 MEA was revised to measure student learning in response to the Maine Learning Results, which were adopted by the Legislature in 1996. State education officials warn that the scores bear little relevance to those of previous years and cannot be used as a continuous assessment of the performance of the state\u27s schools, teachers or students