In Rhode Island, Brown University has announced that it will use one-hundred million dollars to diversify its campus, to try to make the school more…
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Rhode Island Joins National Effort To Increase Reading Proficiency
Rhode Island is joining a national effort to increase reading proficiency in elementary school. New state and national test scores show major…
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State Distributes $4.5M For Job Training Across RI
The state is distributing some $4.5 million dollars for job training programs around the state. The money will be split among 26 groups. The winning…
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Local Parent Group Makes The Case For Required Recess
A group of parents wants Rhode Island to require recess as part of the school day. The parents are organizing to make their case at a public hearing…
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Letter Questions RIC President’s Leadership
A group of Rhode Island College faculty and staff has sent a strongly-worded letter to state officials, warning that college President Nancy Carriuolo…
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TGIF: 19 Things To Know About Rhode Island Politics & Media
After a mid-November slowdown, politics near and far remains roiled by fallout from the Paris attacks. Thanks for stopping by for my weekly column….
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PARCC: How RI Measures Up
Now that we have results from the first year of a new standardized test, designed specifically to measure progress on the Common Core, it is…
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Wagner: We Have Much More Work To Do
Rhode Island has more work to do to improve public schools. That’s according to State Education Commissioner Ken Wagner, responding to test scores from…
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What You Need To Know About RI’s PARCC Scores
PARCC uses the language of “students meeting or exceeding expectations,” whereas NECAP used the term “proficiency.” Whatever you want to call it, far…
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State Education Officials To Release Results Of PARCC Testing
Test scores are due out this week for Rhode Island public school students who took the PARCC, a new standardized test linked to the Common Core…
