Impact of affirmative action ruling on Maine higher education remains unclear
A Supreme Court decision barred colleges from considering an applicant’s race in the admissions process. How that will play out is still to be seen.
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.
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.
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