HEBRON — With close to 1,500 acres at their call, the Outdoor Skills program of the Middle School at Hebron Academy has no shortage of educational adventures to pursue. Paul Brouwer, director of the Outdoor Skills program, is a Registered Maine Guide and wilderness first responder, and safety is first on his list. The sixth […]
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School climate, technology, and discipline
School culture and climate greatly affect how successful school discipline policies can be. “The ideal school climate is one where the focus is on teaching and learning and the future of kids,” said Gus LeBlanc, principal of Lewiston High School. “If you can get students to engage in the belief that the learning, education, and […]
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Panel: Maine school discriminated against student
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Human Rights Commission has ruled that a middle school discriminated against a sixth grader by not letting the male-to-female transgender student use the girls’ bathroom. The parents of the child, who no longer attends school in the district, wrote to the commission that she experienced anxiety and depression during […]
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Maine student test scores stable
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Education Deprtment says high school students’ scores on the SAT and the Advanced Placement tests remained stable and a more diverse student population took the tests. The department cites a report released Monday by the College Board. State Education Commissioner Angela Faherty says Maine’s participation rate is the highest […]
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Maine Dept. of Education warns schools about use of ‘dangerous restraints’
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Education is telling schools to prohibit the use of airway-restrictive restraints on students until the department can revise its regulations on restraint and seclusion of students in public and private schools. In a Sept. 10 letter from Education Commissioner Angela Faherty to superintendents and other school personnel, the department […]
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Maineiacs Education Found
MAINEiacs Education Foundation By Paul Spellman The Lewiston MAINEiacs organization is firmly committed to providing our players a quality education during their playing days in Lewiston as well as their post playing days, wherever that may be. The Lewiston MAINEiacs Education Foundation was founded in the spring of 2004 as a non-profit organization. Nineteen of […]
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Fragmented educational system
Is it any wonder that Maine failed to place in the federal Race to the Top education reform competition? What a wake-up call. One must ask what, if any, educational improvements have resulted from Maine’s long, costly school consolidation campaign? Maine still hasn’t tackled major revisions to our fragmented educational system. Gov. John Baldacci’s initial […]
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Maine’s Colby College bans hard liquor
WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — Colby College is following two other elite liberal arts colleges in Maine by banning hard alcohol from campus this fall. Dean of Students Jim Terhune says the goal is to eliminate “dangerous drinking.” He says hard liquor, not beer or wine, is the culprit when students are hospitalized for excessive drinking. […]
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Better programs needed
School budgets take up most of a town’s budget, leaving little for anything else, yet it seems to me that there is something terribly wrong with the way special-needs students are handled in the public school system. In Maine, state and local expenditures for special-needs children (ages 3 to 21) is an eye-opener. According to […]