Stories about "Teaching and education"
2017 is another banner year for Fulbright and Bates
Thursday, May 11, 2017 9:56 am
The Fulbright U.S. Student program has offered 2017–18 grants to 25 Bates College seniors and young alumni.
Look What We Found: Krista Aronson’s controversial children’s book
Thursday, May 4, 2017 12:36 pm
Psychology professor Krista Aronson has a copy of A Birthday Cake for George Washington — but she doesn’t necessarily want your child reading it.
Visionary educator Geoffrey Canada to deliver 2017 Commencement address, joining honorands Sen. Susan Collins, Wanda Corn, and Patrick Dempsey
Thursday, April 13, 2017 2:05 pm
Visionary American educator Geoffrey Canada gives the Commencement address, joined by fellow honorands Sen. Susan Collins, art historian Wanda Corn ’62, and Lewiston-born actor Patrick Dempsey.
Bates in the News: April 14, 2017
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 12:59 pm
Newsmakers talk about rural education (it's not only about white Americans) and the Senate and the filibuster; plus two alumni innovators in the financial world.
What do we know about Bates’ first Irish-born graduate?
Friday, March 17, 2017 12:22 pm
Dennis Joseph Callahan, Class of 1876, was born in Bishopstown, Ireland, on Christmas Day in 1852.
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.
Bates in the News: March 10, 2017
Thursday, March 9, 2017 12:51 pm
The media explain why pot is legal in Maine yet illegal at colleges like Bates, and why Bates is a case study of why a biofuel company might expand to Maine.
Q&A: Marcus Bruce ’77 on Benjamin Mays, MLK, and the ongoing struggle for emancipation
Friday, January 6, 2017 12:50 pm
Bruce, the college's Benjamin Mays Professor, explains why Mays — Class of 1920, great 20th-century civil rights leader, and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. — offers hope for "a new birth of freedom."
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.
Rosamond Toomey ’33 turns 103, and the Hartford Courant takes note
Friday, November 8, 2013 9:15 am
A Phi Beta Kappa mathematics major at Bates, she went on to a long teaching career.