Culinary arts students at Augusta-based technical center learn by running...
Chef Heidi Parent strives to be innovative with her culinary arts program, including using COVID-19 pandemic relief funding to buy a food trailer for her students to run.
View ArticleCollege is remade as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle
Cap-and-gown roll calls for computer science and other technology-centered disciplines are becoming ever lengthier, and for the humanities, ever shorter.
View ArticleLuster returns to Maine Central Institute’s landmark building following $6...
The Pittsfield school has received a preservation award for the extensive work at 150-year-old Founders Hall, the oldest building on the 23-acre campus.
View ArticleColby College graduates told to embrace failure, stay true to self
At the Waterville college's 202nd commencement exercises Sunday morning, diplomas were presented to 543 graduates from 38 states and 35 countries.
View ArticleHollywood executive booed during Boston University graduation
Scores of students turned their backs as the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery gave the school’s commencement address while striking writers picketed outside.
View ArticlePortland schools struggle to enroll students amid influx of asylum seekers
The city school district has enrolled over 800 students whose primary language is not English this school year – about twice the rate of the previous year.
View ArticleUsing ‘he/him,’‘she/her’ in emails got 2 dorm directors fired at small New...
The firing of 2 employees at a religious school in western New York is fanning the culture wars roiling parts of the United States
View ArticleUMaine System trustees approve tuition, fee increases
Citing declining enrollment, inflation and other financial pressures, the board adopts a budget that will raise tuition 3% for in-state students beginning this fall. Room and board and student fees...
View ArticleHoax school shooting made worse when Massachusetts officer accidentally fires...
Local and state police had responded to a report of someone with a gun at St. John's Prep at about 2 p.m. Monday, and the sound of the gunshot 'elevated the situation,' police said.
View ArticleZelensky delivers surprise commencement speech to Johns Hopkins
He spoke via live stream from Ukraine, where the ongoing conflict has impacted the futures of countless young Ukrainians, robbing them of opportunities and loved ones.
View ArticleTom Hanks urges Harvard grads to defend the truth, resist indifference
'For the truth to some is no longer empirical. It's no longer based on data, nor common sense, nor even common decency,' said the two-time Academy Award winner.
View ArticleUMaine-Augusta to lease new residence hall to add 23 dorm beds for students
The 10-year lease will cost the university nearly $2 million, but will accommodate the large number of students that are currently on the waitlist for housing.
View ArticleMaine adjunct professors join push for wage increases
The instructors acknowledge they have different roles than full-time faculty but say they should be paid similarly for performing the same tasks.
View ArticleBates College graduates emerge from pandemic-altered college experience
Retiring Bates President Clayton Spencer watched Sunday for the last time in her 11-year tenure as the college's 439 seniors flipped their tassels and became graduates.
View ArticleMaine now has a state butterfly thanks to 2 inquisitive fifth graders
The Old Orchard Beach students reached out to their state representative, Lori Gramlich, who worked with them on submitting a bill naming the Pink-edged Sulphur as Maine's official butterfly.
View ArticleMaine’s high school graduation rate dropped during the pandemic, but may be...
This year's grads were freshmen when the pandemic hit, making this past year their first relatively normal high school experience.
View ArticleGray teen hit by tractor-trailer faces ‘long road to recovery’
School officials say the 13-year-old Gray-New Gloucester Middle School student has severe injuries and will undergo surgery, but is expected to recover.
View ArticleKennebec County Teacher of the Year gives students a chance to restore...
Sharon Gallant and her Gardiner Area High School students have worked with a local nonprofit for five years to collect data on the fish often used as lobster bait in hopes they can help bring the...
View ArticleSenate passes Republican-led bill overturning student loan cancellation,...
Biden has pledged to keep in place his commitment to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loans for 43 million people.
View ArticleFormer Chewonki school families to open new independent school in Bath
The Brightfield School will offer place-based education for students in first through eighth grades starting in September, replacing the Chewonki Elementary and Middle School after it closes in June.
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