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College Of Education & Human Development _Re-Opening Schools In The Midst Of The Covid-19 Pandemic: Lessons For Leaders From The 2020-2021 School Year, Catharine Biddle, Maria Frankland

Teaching, Learning & Research Documents

Report highlighting the findings of the “Beyond Crisis Schooling” research project which has worked to understand how school leaders understood and responded to the evolving landscape of the COVID crisis between March 2020 and June 2021, including what factors were most important in addressing both the unique and common challenges that their districts experienced through the analysis of
over 7,000 district documents and interviews with 52 district leaders.

Included as supplemental content are screenshots of the project's webpages.

Local Involvement, Memory, And Denial: The Complexities Of The Holocaust In Lithuania, Hailey Cedor

Honors College

The Holocaust was one of the most pivotal and destructive events in the 20th century. While decades of research have been done in order to attempt to understand the events of the Holocaust, its preconditions, its survivors, and its lasting impacts, there is still much to be studied. This thesis explores the complex and understudied relationship of Lithuanians with the Holocaust. Local collaboration with Nazi perpetrators was widespread, yet acknowledgement of and reconciliation with this collaboration is largely absent from Lithuania’s current public memory. While this work does not excuse the actions of perpetrators or condemn those who helped Jewish …

Covid-19_Umaine News_Mette Highlights Opportunities To Mitigate Educational Inequity In Bdn Op-Ed, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine in the News regarding a Bangor Daily News op-ed piece, University of Maine associate professor of educational leadership Ian Mette proposed that the pandemic provides opportunities to rethink expectation and improve education by reducing the inequities that affect learning.

Covid-19_Umaine News_Biddle Discusses Pandemic-Related Achievement Gaps With Maine Monitor, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

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Screenshot of UMaine in the News regarding Catharine Biddle, Associate Professor of Education discussing pandemic-related achievement gaps with Maine Monitor.

Room For Opportunity: An Investigation Of Catholic Student Life At The University Of Maine, Jacob Buttarazzi

Honors College

Like most Honors graduates before me, the final work for this thesis became something much different than what I had originally intended. Originally, I wanted to make short videos and blog posts about the nature of religion at UMaine. However, the project evolved into a short documentary focused specifically on Catholic students. I produced, directed, shot, and edited the film. My primary goal was to investigate whether or not Catholic students felt like a minority and how that affected them. I was repeatedly forced to reevaluate my own experience with faith throughout the production process. As a practicing Catholic, I …

An Evolutionary Approach To Crowdsourcing Mathematics Education, Spencer Ward

Honors College

By combining ideas from evolutionary biology, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, this thesis attempts to derive a new kind of crowdsourcing that could better leverage people’s collective creativity. Following a theory of knowledge presented by David Deutsch, it is argued that knowledge develops through evolutionary competition that organically emerges from a creative dialogue of trial and error. It is also argued that this model of knowledge satisfies the properties of Douglas Hofstadter’s strange loops, implying that self-reflection is a core feature of knowledge evolution. This mix of theories then is used to analyze several existing strategies of crowdsourcing and knowledge …

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (2017), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff

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Investing In Our Future - How Maine Can Prepare Our Children To Becometommorrow's Leaders (2017), Maine Women's Policy Center And Maine Children's Alliance Staff

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Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff

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Teaching Literature In America: Demonstrating Relevance In The Early Cold War 1945-1963, Jennifer Chalmers

Honors College

This historical research focuses on how literature was taught in American high schools in the early Cold War period (1945-1963) and why it was taught that way. It aims to discover how the Cold War culture of conformity impacted secondary literature education. What were literature teachers’ concerns? What was the historical context of these concerns, and how did they affect methods in the classroom and rhetoric in academic journals? Finally, how did methodology and rhetoric change over time? Research involved gaining familiarity with Early Cold War culture, politics, and events through secondary sources; narrowing to U.S. education in the early …

Humanizing The Humanities: A Historical, Cultural, And Philosophical Examination Of The Disintegration Of Humanities Higher Education, Nicholas Moore

Honors College

This essay is an examination of the multifaceted reasons humanities education in American colleges is losing standing and funding. Historical, cultural, and philosophical perspectives are used to analyze the grounds that have justified the decreasing levels of support for humanities education. Historically, there is no longer any external justification provided, as there was when Sputnik was launched and the Cold War was endured. Culturally, the high culture model of ascension through the accrual of cultural signifiers is no longer the dominant form of raising one’s status, as it was when the humanities could be justified as cultural initiation. Philosophically, market-based …

University Of Maine General Education Requirements, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine's general education requirements (Approved April 2012 by Faculty Senate)

Maine Women's Insider (August 2006), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff

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Maine Women's Insider (June 2006), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff

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Maine Now Times (Fall 1992), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (Summer 1991), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (Spring 1991), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (Winter 1991), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (Aug 1990), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (May 1990), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (Feb 1990), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (April-June 1989), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (Jan-March 1989), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (Oct-Nov 1988), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Women's Center Newsletter (Fall 1988), University Of Maine Women's Center Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (June-Aug 1988), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (March-April 1988), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Women's Center Newsletter (March 1988), University Of Maine Women's Center Staff

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Inform - A Quarterly Newletter For Maine Women (Dec1987 - Jan 1988), The Maine Commission For Women Staff

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Women's Center Newsletter (December 1987), University Of Maine Women's Center Staff

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