LEWISTON — Summer school counselor Isaiah Teague, 14, got the crowd of students pumped with his performance in the Longley Elementary School gym Wednesday morning. “Left, left, left, right, left,” he chanted as 290 elementary students marched and chanted along. “Are you ready?” he called. “Let me see your funky chicken!” His audience clucked like chickens […]
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S. Mortimer: Bad future for some students
In a Sun Journal article about big schools (March 27), Farwell Elementary School Principal Althea Walker was quoted as saying, “The federal government decides on how many beds for prison in the future by the number of students reading below grade by the third grade.” That isn’t actually true. It is an urban legend that […]
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Wilton fourth-graders designate funds for play museum
WILTON — Fourth-graders at Academy Hill School have pledged funds to the Western Maine Play Museum, an emerging children’s museum in Wilton. The students decided they wanted to give the profits from their annual Business/Education Partnership with Hannaford Brothers to the museum. For the past 25 years, Brenda Laverdiere’s fourth-grade students have been involved in […]
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Students spend summer hours learning about math
AUBURN — Tuesday was a beautiful summer day, the temperature already 80 degrees at 10:30 a.m. Instead of lounging by a pool, Quinn Myrick, 15, worked on geometry at Edward Little High School. He had lots of company. The air-conditioned library was packed with 50-plus students at tables, books open, pencils in hand as they […]
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Great Falls Forum to feature ESOL teachers Kemper, Walworth
LEWISTON — This month’s Great Falls Forum, taking place on Friday, May 16, will feature Anne Kemper, coordinator of Lewiston’s Adult Learning Center, and Joyce Walworth, ESOL instructor with Portland Adult Education. They will present a talk titled, “The Changing Face of Maine: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in Lewiston and Portland.” This […]
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R. Sabine: Teach the children to read
Today’s schoolchildren can’t read. Most people would prefer not to know that, but like unpleasant engine noises, it shouldn’t be ignored. Less than half the high school juniors are proficient in critical reading and half of high school graduates who enter community college need remedial courses. A generation or more ago, that wasn’t a problem, […]