Education forum to be held at Bates

Where Are the Pressure Points for Changing Maine High Schools? a two-hour open forum featuring a panel of Maine high-school educators, will be held at 7 p.m. March 15 in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. The forum, sponsored by the Bates and Bowdoin college departments of education and the Maine Commission on Secondary Schools, is open to the public without charge.

The forum will be moderated by Gordon Donaldson, University of Maine and the Center for Inquiry on Secondary Education. The panelists include Cari Medd of Leavitt High School in Turner, Pam Fisher of the Southern Maine Partnership and George Marnik, principal of Mount Desert Island High School in Bar Harbor.