The second class meeting begins with discussion of essays on “the Gilded Age: a modern nation?” Students outline their essays orally, or circulate print copies. Then there’s debate. To some students the politics seem very modern: corruption, civil rights and liberties, taxation, eventually a small foreign war. To others, politics was antique: no mass or […]

SNHU MANCHESTER — Rachel Roth-Eldridge of Albany Township (04217) has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s summer 2021 Dean’s List. Eligibility for the Dean’s List requires that a student accumulate an academic grade point average (GPA) of 3.5-3.699 and earn 12 credits for the term.

Bethel built elementary schools very early on, in response to Massachusetts’ school laws and Protestant custom. Typically one room, one teacher, multi-grade at first, they taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and also punctuality and sociability. Attendance, for a few years at least, was soon the norm; illiteracy becomes a bigger handicap in an increasingly literate society. […]

NEW YORK — The Bronfman Fellowship is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 36th cohort of this transformative program. The Fellowship selects twenty-six outstanding North American teenagers for an intellectually challenging year of programming that begins with a free summer in Israel between the Fellows’ junior and senior years of […]

AREA — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free individualized sessions, Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 and over who are looking for a new career or returning to higher education. The virtual sessions are being held at the following dates and times: • Monday, September 27 at 9 a.m. • Wednesday, […]

NEW YORK — The Bronfman Fellowship is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 36th cohort of this transformative program. The Fellowship selects twenty-six outstanding North American teenagers for an intellectually challenging year of programming that begins with a free summer in Israel between the Fellows’ junior and senior years of […]

The long vacation is over. We’ve shopped for discount school supplies (including stylish masks?), thought about clothes, checked the bus schedule. It’s time to review a few things about studying, about how to learn and why. They’ve been said before, but bear repeating. Students need dedicated time and space at home. Quiet space, not in […]

FARMINGTON — Lacey McQuarrie from Houlton, a special education teacher in Aroostook County, is looking forward to graduating from the University of Maine at Farmington in spring 2022 with a Master’s in Educational Leadership. Being able to take her graduate classes remotely has made all the difference to her. Normally, the program is taught in […]