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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A giant map of Europe is currently taking up a portion of the gymnasium floor at Leonard Middle School in Old Town, where students are using it to study the geography and culture of the continent.
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The University of Maine is pleased to announce that Reading Matters to Maine will award five tuition scholarships to individuals enrolling in SED 545, Intervention for Reading Difficulties, in spring 2017.
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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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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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Thirteen students and two professors from the University of Maine spent the final week of May on Swan’s Island doing community service projects and taking in the island’s natural and cultural attractions as part of a unique May Term travel-study course.
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed Rich Kent, an associate professor of literacy education at the University of Maine, for the report, “UMaine professor: Writing boosts performance of Maine’s student-athletes.”
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