Two bike desks, installed in a math classroom last year, have been a hit with students who say getting some exercise in the classroom helps them focus.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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‘Making is knowing’: How true knowledge happens when we’re engaged
At the start of each school year I find myself asking, “What is the one thing I want my students to walk away with from my classes if they learn nothing else?” Certainly, there are learning outcomes each class needs to achieve, but I often wonder what larger context my teaching might offer. This year […]
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U.S. News & World Report ranks Bowdoin No. 4 among liberal arts colleges
Bates and Colby also crack the top 25 in the annual ranking.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Maine woman among 3 nursing students suing Colby-Sawyer College
The students, including JoAnna Densmore of New Gloucester, say the college in New Hampshire was trying to ‘thin the herd’ and unfairly failed them in a required course.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News, Schools and Education
RSU 18 organizes panel to review buildings
The committee will spend a year studying state of the Oakland-based district’s buildings and provide recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
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Waterville principal, lawyer meet with superintendent, school attorney
High school principal Don Reiter was put on administrative leave last week pending investigations by the school and the Waterville Police Department of a situation involving an individual, according to his lawyer.
Posted inNation & World, Schools and Education
More than 3,000 former Corinthian College students will have debt erased
While unprecedented, the figures represent just a fraction of the students who might qualify for debt relief.
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Belgrade committee to look at what the town pays to educate its students in RSU 18
This year, the proposed $34.7 million school budget for the district was rejected in a ratification vote in May, but voters approved a slightly smaller budget in June.
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Colby College freshmen create temporary parks in downtown Waterville
The orientation activities brought students, downtown shop owners and pedestrians together for games and conversation.
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Examining temptation, ethics and the university
When we learn how cruelly people can treat one another, it’s tempting for us to think we are exempt from the trend. Every year, students in my Introduction to Sociology class at the University of Maine at Augusta review data from Stanley Milgram’s chilling classic shock experiment, in which 65 percent of subjects followed orders to deliver […]