The University of Maine will host Kai Schafft, an associate professor of education at Pennsylvania State University and director of the Center on Rural Education and Communities, for a lecture on Wednesday, March 1.
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As the state encourages more school districts to save money by sharing services, two UMaine professors spoke with Maine Public about the lessons that can be learned from school consolidation.
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What can you learn by studying 100 years of academic writing about rural education in the United States? For Catharine Biddle, assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, it’s this: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Education Week published the commentary “How education is failing rural America,” by Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, and Daniella Hall, a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy.
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WLBZ (Channel 2) recently featured Mallory Cook, a master’s student in Educational Leadership at the University of Maine, in its regular series on Inspiring Educators.
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Three University of Maine professors and one doctoral student have co-authored an article in the new issue of “Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership” that explores the impact of poverty, as well as institutional racism, education reform and other issues on educators and schools in rural areas.
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The Bangor Daily News published a column written by Professor Emeritus of Education Gordon Donaldson.
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Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership with the College of Education and Human Development, is quoted in a recent Education Week article.
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The University of Maine Educational Leadership program is seeking Washington County superintendents, principals and teacher leaders for a regional group that will be part of a new master’s degree cohort starting in fall 2016.
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Ian Mette, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, had the most downloaded article of 2015 in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. The paper, “Turnaround, Transformational, or Transactional Leadership: An Ethical Dilemma in School Reform,” appeared in the December 2014 issue of JCEL. It was downloaded more than 1,500 […]
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