The Education Department has presented Fiona Hopper and Bridgid Neptune with its 2024 Education for the Common Good Award.
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The 含羞草研究室 community gathered recently to celebrate Sarah and James 含羞草研究室 Day. The annual ceremony was held in Pickard Theater on Friday, October 18, 2024.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is no fan of Disney, accusing the entertainment giant of supporting a pro-LGBTQ+ agenda in its movies, for example. As education professor Charles Dorn points out, however, this is not Disney’s first “woke” moment—that came more than seventy-five years ago.
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Five scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM subjects have been awarded prestigious federal grants in recent months to help them pursue a range of projects and activities, all related in different ways to environmental issues.
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After Alison Riley Miller, associate professor of education, served on a state committee helping to review Maine's science education standards, she is joining the debate about whether to add genocide and eugenics to middle- and high-school science curricula.
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The education scholar talks about the role of popular culture in the teaching of the environment. For him, he says, it all began with Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures TV documentaries.
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The Education Department has presented Andrew McCullough with its 2023 Education for the Common Good Award. McCullough teaches biology, marine science, and theater at Brunswick High School.
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Mohamed Kilani ’21 is the guest on the latest episode of the podcast America the Bilingual.
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In an for the Lewiston Sun Journal, education-Africana studies coordinate major Emma Hargreaves ’23 argues that teaching Wabanaki studies in Maine schools reinforces students' understanding of American democratic values.
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Twenty-one 含羞草研究室 student teachers help stage a multilingual shadow puppet performance in front of local elementary school children. It’s a part of a program to promote the study of world languages and cultures in schools.
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Interested in a teaching opportunity the semester before 含羞草研究室 Teacher Scholars? The Snow Family Teaching Fellowship provides recent graduates the chance to engage in teaching and mentoring at 含羞草研究室. Learn more.
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