Starting this fall, undergraduate students majoring in education at the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias will be able count certain 400-level courses toward a master’s degree in special education.
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Miranda Snyder of Brimfield, Massachusetts spent part of her summer immersed in activism and volunteering with youth.
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The University of Maine is partnering with the Education Development Center (EDC) in Waltham, Massachusetts, Mount Washington Observatory (MWO) in North Conway, New Hampshire, and additional partners to help eighth-grade students in rural Maine and New Hampshire learn scientific data analysis and modeling skills. The new WeatherX project is funded by a three-year, $1.19 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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The public education communities on and off campus are mourning the loss of Kristin “Krissy” Miner, a talented teacher, and University of Maine alumna and current master’s student. She died this past weekend at the age of 42.
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Karen Robbie, a doctoral student in prevention and intervention studies, was one of 12 Ph.D. students nationwide to receive funding to attend the Council for Exceptional Children’s 2019 Special Education Legislative Summit.
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Reading Recovery works because it addresses a student’s individual needs. The program acknowledges that every student learns differently and that sometimes in order to progress as literacy learners, students need additional, focused instruction to support classroom instruction.
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Two University of Maine professors are out with new research examining how calls for civility and tone policing factor into the growing practice of student voice in preK–12 schools.
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Andrew Vernon is on a mission to reverse a staggering statistic about military veterans: On average, 20 veterans commit suicide every day in the United States. It’s a number that has held steady for a decade, and Vernon says it’s time to do something about it.
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The College of Education and Human Development welcomed interim dean Mary Gresham to the University of Maine at the beginning of the month.
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The University of Maine recognized 285 College of Education and Human Development students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the spring 2019 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 196 are from Maine, 82 are from 17 other states and 7 are from five countries other than the U.S. Listed below are College […]
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