With the new school year off and running, it’s a good time to take stock of trends in enrollment. Over the coming years, what decisions will districts face preparing for future cohorts of children entering—or leaving—their schools?
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Dr. Mary Ehrenworth, deputy director of Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, a literacy think tank at Columbia University, spoke to more than 200 Maine educators and school administrators about the difference they can make in kids’ lives, just by teaching them to read and write well.
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Professor Craig Mason, who specializes in applied quantitative methods, will be one of four roundtable experts speaking on, “Beyond the Blood Spot: Newborn Screening for Hearing Loss and Critical Congenital Heart Disease.”
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported on Early Start Maine, a program developed by the state’s Child Development Services in partnership with the Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research (MAIER), a University of Maine-based center.
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The Guardian mentioned research from a 2008 University of Maine study in an article about a high school football coach and six players in Oregon who are facing criminal charges for “aggressive” hazing.
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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 Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization about criminal justice, cited a 2008 University of Maine study in the article, “Does college hazing defy the laws it spawned?”
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Susan Bennett-Armistead, a professor of literacy education at the University of Maine, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) at an early childhood education conference in Augusta.
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University of Maine professors Marie Hayes and Craig Mason, along with Ph.D. student Jake Emerson, were quoted in a Bangor Daily News report about the increase of infant deaths in Maine.
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Elizabeth Allan, executive director of StopHazing.org and professor of higher education at the University of Maine, was cited in an Inside Higher Ed report on a recent hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
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