Schools and Education
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PublishedJuly 25, 2023
Lewiston High School considers installing vape detectors in bathrooms
School officials are discussing different strategies to increase access to bathrooms in the high school.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2023
Biden administration to clear $130 million in debt of CollegeAmerica students
More than 7,000 students who attended the Colorado-based campuses of the for-profit chain between 2006 and 2020 will have their loans canceled.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2023
Department of Education orders investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions
According to the complaint filed by a Boston civil rights group, children of alumni or donors are about 6 times more likely to be admitted to the school.
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PublishedJuly 24, 2023
Lewiston High School plans to add twice-weekly remediation period
The 38-minute period dubbed Academic Focus Time will give students an opportunity to make up work with classroom teachers.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2023
Teaching jobs, athletics and more at risk as Gorham voters mull school budget
The proposed $49 million budget would eliminate middle school sports, make high school sports pay-to-play and cut 20 jobs. Other effects might go beyond the classrooms and playing fields.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Harry Frankfurt, philosopher of excrement-level falsehoods, dies at 94
Frankfurt, a Princeton University philosopher who wrote primarily on Descartes, free will and moral responsibility, found literary fame with an unexpected bestseller on the pervasive, willful and devilish art of avoiding the truth.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Unity Environmental University sees enrollment grow as it continues transition to distance learning
Officials at the university, formerly known as Unity College, said that within a couple of years, they expect to enroll more than 10,000 full-time students.
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PublishedJuly 17, 2023
Maine’s most selective colleges say little about their legacy admissions practices
Bowdoin, Colby and Bates answered few questions about preference given to applicants related to alumni and donors.
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PublishedJuly 16, 2023
Portland schools embracing multilingual education
A third of the district's roughly 6,500 students are multilingual, many with limited English. Preparing educators to confront that shift could benefit everyone.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2023
Biden administration announces $39 billion in student loan forgiveness
The Education Department said the plan will help more than 800,000 borrowers.
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