The Bangor Daily News editorial “Coaches have perfect play to strike out bullying” cited the University of Maine’s National Study of Student Hazing. The study found 47 percent of respondents said they were hazed while in high school.
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William “Dee” Nichols, dean of the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network and Bangor Daily News about UMaine’s low rating in a national study on teacher-training programs. Nichols questioned the methodology and goal of the National Council on Teacher Quality study that ranked 1,430 education programs […]
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The Mainebiz article “CEO group advances early education effort” focuses on a Maine Early Learning Investment Group study on the fiscal benefits of creating a statewide early childhood education system for those with low incomes. Philip Trostel, economist at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the School of Economics at the University of Maine, […]
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The Bangor Daily News included a travel guide by Marisue Pickering, professor emerita in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Maine, and her husband John Pickering, a former teacher at both Orono’s Asa Adams School and UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development, in an article about new books by Maine authors. The […]
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Marisue Pickering, professor emerita in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Maine, and her husband John Pickering, a former teacher at both Orono’s Asa Adams School and UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development, have released a tourism book titled “Maine — Beyond the Usual.” The travel guide contains information, stories and photographs […]
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A group of about 50 seventh-graders from Amistad Academy Middle School in New Haven, Conn. toured the University of Maine on Thursday, June 6. The students were accompanied by their teacher, Abigail Herrick, a 2010 University of Maine graduate and former Team Maine member. Highlights included a welcome at the Admissions Office, a Mainely Physics […]
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The Kennebec Journal spoke with Philip Trostel, professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the School of Economics at the University of Maine, about his research on the fiscal benefits of creating a statewide early childhood education system for those with low incomes. Public News Service also carried a report citing Trostel’s research […]
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Opening books and doors for youngsters across Maine for two decades.
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Educators and parents avow that Reading Recovery — an early intervention, short-term, one-on-one prevention initiative for first-graders having difficulty reading and writing — opens doors to learning and creates opportunities for children. The thousands of children who enjoy reading and are reading well are proof. Brian Doore, assistant research professor in the University of Maine’s […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Patricia Marshall, professor and interim associate vice president for academic affairs at Worcester State University, told Congress on Wednesday what it was like growing up in poverty in rural Maine and how federal educational programs for low-income students are necessary. Marshall participated in Upward Bound and Talent Search at the […]
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