Maine Schools in Focus: Maine’s Charter Schools—A Five-Year Update
Five years into Maine’s experience, what have we learned about the state’s unique brand of public charter school?
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College of Education and Human Development participates in Read to ME Challenge
The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development is taking part in the 2017 Read to ME Challenge.
Read moreMaine Public interviews UMaine’s Donaldson, Fairman for school regionalization report
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.
Read moreProfessor examines 100 years of rural education research
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.
Read moreEducation Week publishes commentary by Biddle
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.
Read moreTammy Ranger: 2017 Maine Teacher of the Year reflects on earning master’s degree from UMaine
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.
Read moreMaine Schools in Focus: How Far Have We Come? Looking Back a Century
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.
Read moreWABI interviews Caron about latest book on forming families
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.”
Read moreEducational Leadership student named WLBZ Inspiring Educator
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.
Read moreMerrill Hall gets Little Free Library thanks to child development center teachers
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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