Stories about "Education"
‘We’ve always dealt with these issues’: How COVID-19 affects rural schools
Thursday, April 9, 2020 3:34 pm
As schools scramble to provide meals and technology in the pandemic, a Bates scholar looks to the future — and a student school board member makes decisions in the present.
Bates College receives 15 offers of prestigious Fulbright Student awards
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 10:52 am
Fifteen Bates College seniors and young alumni have received offers of prestigious Fulbright Student awards for the coming 2018–19 academic year.
Video: Brooke Drabkin ’18 values her relationship with Lewiston
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 1:42 pm
Spending time with Lewiston-Auburn's Jewish community, says Drabkin, has "opened my eyes to the differences that can exist in one tradition."
Bates students help develop a better approach to English language learning
Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:05 pm
A really effective approach to working with English language learners is surprisingly simple.
Why banning cellphones in schools misses the point
Friday, March 23, 2018 10:13 am
Cell phones get at "the heart of rule-making" in classrooms: relationships and trust, says Lecturer in Education Anita Charles.
MLK Day 2018: Education is ‘the key to the kind of society we need’
Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:38 pm
In an era when enlightenment seems to be draining from U.S. society, Bates on MLK Day was a source of replenishment, choosing education its theme.
Look What We Found: Mara Tieken’s green, battered, and beloved armchair
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 3:00 pm
Call it ugly, and she’ll agree, but Mara Tieken still loves the green chair for its personality and history, if not its Mad Men style.
Plenty of class: A student-teaching placement links Bates generations
Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:13 pm
Feeling blue about civic society in a post-factual era? Then here's student teacher Elizabeth Erbafina '17 teaching seventh graders about using evidence in their writing.
As Bates-hosted C3 summit starts, Crystal Williams speaks to the imperative to diversify faculty at U.S. colleges
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:57 pm
When students learn from faculty who are from many backgrounds, it "opens all students to the idea of possibility — both for themselves and for others," Williams says.
Students, guest speaker present education symposium at Bates
Monday, April 6, 2015 2:47 pm
The Bates College education department hosts a symposium comprising student presentations followed by a keynote address on April 8.