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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When she was looking for graduate programs in literacy education, Tammy Ranger knew the University of Maine had a reputation for having an outstanding program.
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The turning of the new year prodded us to look back in time for some perspective on Maine schools in 2017. The annual “state of the schools” report for 1915-16 offers a few perhaps useful observations.
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Sandra Caron, a University of Maine professor of family relations and human sexuality, about her latest book, “Birds and Bees and More: How Babies are Made and Families Form.”
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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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The Katherine Miles Durst Child Development Learning Center inside Merrill Hall on the University of Maine campus gets a lot of donated books.
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Broadly mentioned research from a 2008 University of Maine study in an article about an alleged violent hazing ritual at Hofstra University in New York.
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Members of the University of Maine group Male Athletes Against Violence are handing out white ribbons to men on campus this week, reports WABI (Channel 5).
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