The University Training Center for Reading Recovery and Maine Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy hosted more than 60 literacy coaches, Reading Recovery teacher leaders, and school administrators from across the state this week for a presentation by Linda Dorn, Professor of Reading Education at University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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Two University of Maine professors have created an interactive map that looks at how each school district in the state would fare under the governor’s proposed biennial budget. The map, created by Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership Ian Mette and Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction Patrick Womac, accompanies an op-ed the pair wrote […]
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FOX 22 Bangor reported on a University of Maine pilot study that could lead to a new method of monitoring people who sustain concussions.
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In 2012, Maine joined the majority of states in the effort to upgrade professional quality through better performance evaluation of teachers and principals. The Legislature, in passing LD 1858, required all districts to develop Professional Evaluation and Professional Growth (PEPG) systems, part of the federal government’s Race to the Top. All districts were to create their own systems and pilot them in 2015-16. This year, some districts are implementing these systems while others are taking a second year of pilot-testing.
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A team led by researchers from the University of Maine and Logan University recently conducted a pilot study that might lead to a new method of monitoring people who sustain concussions.
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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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The public is invited to a diversity dialogue with students from Tree Street Youth during their visit to University of Maine on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
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Five years into Maine’s experience, what have we learned about the state’s unique brand of public charter school?
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The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development is taking part in the 2017 Read to ME Challenge.
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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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