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UMaine after-school science lab partnership celebrates 15 years

Ask any veteran educator what the most important thing an aspiring teacher can do to prepare themselves for a career in the classroom, and they will likely say there’s no substitute for first-hand experience. At the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development, “Early and Often” is the motto when it comes to […]

John Bear Mitchell shows a map titled "Maine's Ice Age Trail Down East" to his Teaching Wabanaki Studies class.

UMaine supports teaching of Wabanaki Studies in K–12 schools

The UMaine College of Education and Human Development has launched a pair of initiatives to help education graduates be better prepared to teach Wabanaki studies when they get jobs in Maine schools.

Adams awarded Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship

The 2020–2021 Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship has been awarded to Tom Adams, a University of Maine secondary education major from Falmouth, Maine.

Maine Schools in Focus: Innovation to Meet Standards

By nature, new curriculum standards such as Common Core or the Next Generation Science Standards have the appearance of being well established ideas for education. Often, however, standards are more visionary, projecting past what is now achievable to what could be achieved in future.