Thoughts on Education
Kathreen Harrison is a longtime educator with a strong interest in school reform. She is currently a World Language teacher in RSU 13, but over the course of almost 30 years has worked in 10 schools in capacities ranging from classroom teacher to gifted and talented teacher to island curriculum adviser. She holds a masters degree from Bank Street School of Education and a bachelors degree from Harvard College. She lives in Camden.
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Reimagining schools
By Kathreen Harrison - May 02Times have changed in the past few decades, and the reality is that for many people, high school graduation, while still exciting, can no longer ...
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Technology in Our Schools: the pluses and minuses
By Kathreen Harrison - Apr 04Computers can be used to great effect in schools and they can also interfere with human development when over-used. Therefore much care should be ...
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Recess and physical education: The natural language of children is motion
By Kathreen Harrison - Mar 01The natural language of children is motion. This is truest of the very young but remains relevant through the middle school years (and should ...
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The need for collaboration
By Kit Harrison - Dec 20Schools and school systems are arguably amongst the most complex social institutions we have, and this is why they are so hard to change. They ...
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Global Education: of core importance
By Kathreen Harrison - Apr 12We live in an age when presidents, business leaders, and the general public alike extol the importance of global education. Yet very little time ...
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Schools should serve democracy
By Kathreen Harrison - Mar 14It almost seems like our governor wants our schools to fail. On the one hand, Gov. Paul LePage has called Maine's schools among the worst in the ...
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Virtual schools
By Kathreen Harrison - Jan 25Gov. Paul LePage’s push to bring virtual charter schools to Maine threatens to increase the already shameful inequities in an education system ...
