The Bangor Daily News reported that the national nonprofit Rural Schools Collaborative will locate its New England regional hub at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.
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A new partnership between the University of Maine and the Rural Schools Collaborative will seek to strengthen the K–12 education workforce across six New England states and provide other opportunities to raise the profile of rural schools and teachers in the region.
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Penny Bishop, dean of the College of Education and Human Development, spoke to the Portland Press Herald and The Maine Monitor about the scramble to fill teaching positions due to a shortage of teachers in Maine.
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The 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting is taking place this week in San Diego and virtually. Here’s a look at some of the presentations, panels, and other events featuring UMaine researchers.
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As a third generation Black Bear, Emily Carbonetti’s connections to the University of Maine run deep. Her mom’s family was from Augusta, and her grandfather and both of her parents graduated from UMaine.
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A paper co-authored by University of Maine assistant professor of educational leadership Catharine Biddle won the Howard A. Dawson Best Research Paper Award at the recent National Rural Education Association annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, wrote a Maine Focus piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “4 ways we can all support students in poverty.”
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Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about rural Aroostook County shattering expectations at sending high schoolers on to higher education.
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Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, spoke with The 74 for the article, “Solving the rural education gap: Experts weigh in on new report’s findings tying gap to prosperity.”
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The University of Maine will host Kai Schafft, an associate professor of education at Pennsylvania State University and director of the Center on Rural Education and Communities, for a lecture on Wednesday, March 1.
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