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Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Top teachers offer their advice for going back to school
For teachers, it’s to be prepared for new challenges. For students, it’s get more sleep and read every day.
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Unity College attracts ‘agents of change’
The school held its orientation for freshmen this weekend, welcoming the largest freshman class in the college’s 50-year history.
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Unity celebrates biggest freshman class ever
Some 247 freshman are slated to enter the school, which holds its convocation Saturday, and enrollment is the highest in its 50-year history.
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UMA gets 23 new students in ‘Pay it Forward’ program
Graduates in the school’s 2015 class gave the free college credits to friends and relatives, saving them more than $600.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo to be Colby’s Lovejoy winner
The New Yorker journalist, formerly of The Washington Post, ‘gives voice to the disadvantaged,’ selection officials said.
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SAD 54 bus routes 2015-16
Canaan, Cornville, Mercer, Skowhengan and Smithfield students attends SAD 54.
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Colby freshmen to create temporary downtown Waterville parks
Next week’s orientation project will help students bond, but it also may boost urban planning ideas, organizers say.
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Testing group: U.S. students’ college readiness improving little
And, as was the case in 2011, Asian-American and white students are still dramatically outperforming others.
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Wilton teacher one of three finalists for Maine Teacher of the Year
Brenda LaVerdiere, an Academy Hill School fourth-grade teacher, was inspired to start teaching by her father, a Waterville music instructor, and has taught in RSU 9 for 38 years.