Western Maine school district sees absenteeism drop, but not enough
Administrators in the Mt. Blue Regional School District are struggling to improve attendance rates as parents and students readjust after the pandemic.
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Incarcerated people are rarely hired for outside jobs. A teaching gig at Colby changed my life.
I get to experience this blessed engagement that I want to make possible for the thousands of other graduate and post-graduate level scholars currently incarcerated across the US.
Diary of a high school senior: More and more, AI is A-OK in classrooms
As AI continues to develop, expect more discussion, and perhaps clearer policies, from schools, teachers and administrators.
Tribes in Maine spent decades fighting to rebury ancestral remains. Harvard resisted them at nearly every turn.
The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still staying in compliance with NAGPRA. The tribes didn’t give up.
Well-regarded leader in Maine’s Deaf community leaving Baxter post
Karen Hopkins to take a position at a school in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Diary of a high school senior: Gun violence, and the toll that never leaves
For some at Baxter Academy, a night of tragedy meant a bowling coach lost to the world, FBI agents in a backyard with machine guns … and anxiety that long will linger.
Diary of a High School Senior: Navigating college admissions
It’s time for college applications, and all the stress that goes with it. But thank goodness for a quality school, quality counselors and quality classmates.