Down East schools turn to brain science to fix rural education [bangordailynews.com]

Alicia Doktor 1/29/1812:00 PM

Editor’s note: This is a continuation of an ongoing series, Your School, that examines what is holding back teachers, principals, parents and communities from helping students realize their full potential, and aims to hold up promising efforts that other places might learn from.

Each of them took a side and lifted. From the back of a minivan, Milbridge Elementary School students Spencer Bickford and CJ Lovejoy carried an armchair into the school’s art room one day in November. They hauled it to the corner where a mental health counselor was soon to set up shop each week.

The counselor is one part of a new program that aims to improve the odds for students in this rural, coastal town and two others in Washington County, which jockeys for the title of Maine’s poorest.

[For more on this story by Darren Fishell, go to https://bangordailynews.com/20...fix-rural-education/]

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