In anticipation of its 25th anniversary in 2018, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform will hire a new director as it seeks to expand its mission to address inequalities in education. The main recommendations proposed in a plan called “The Annenberg Institute: A Road Map” build on the institute’s ...
President Donald Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could seriously impact education in Rhode Island by privatizing public education or cutting federal grants used to help students pay for higher education, some advocates of federally-funded public eduation fear. DeVos “is interested ...
Organizational factors such as school leadership, academic expectations, teacher relationships and school safety are strongly correlated with high teacher retention rates and improved student performance, according to a study conducted by Assistant Professor of Education and Economics Matthew Kraft. Kraft ...
Sex Week 2016: Generation Se(X), a week consisting of over 20 workshops devoted to sexual health education and empowerment, wraps up today, ending this year’s technology-themed installment of the annual series. The program, put on by the Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Council, focuses on ...
Only five blocks up from the Thayer Street CVS, Blue State and a bevy of first-year dormitories lies Hope High School. Though only a two-minute drive apart, Hope and Brown speak to the two stratospheres of our education system. With less than half of the student body proficient in reading and roughly ...
A working group established by Gov. Gina Raimondo has released a 36-page report with policy recommendations for Rhode Island’s educational funding formula. The report suggests changes to the way aid is allocated to charter schools as well as special education and English Language Learner programs. Elizabeth ...
Three Rhode Island public schools — two elementary schools and one middle school — were among the 285 public and 50 private schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2015. The honor recipients were announced by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ...
Students enrolled in some history courses this semester have found their professors using a surprising teaching technique — role-playing — as a means of engaging them in the material. Three history professors have incorporated Reacting to the Past, a role-playing game that originated at Barnard ...
Higher education — including the types of institutions, varieties of advanced degrees and selection of available courses — must adapt to meet the needs of our rapidly changing world. As a senior, I recognize that students need to be ready to enter a transforming workforce, where new fields are constantly ...
Health education class may be a staple of many high school curriculums, but the lessons do not always stick. Incorporating concepts of mindfulness into those classes may help students focus on healthy eating habits and exercise, according to an ongoing study by University researchers. In the study, ...
Mary Grace Almandrez, director of the Brown Center for Students of Color and assistant dean of the College, has engaged with multicultural affairs and issues of social justice since her days as an undergraduate. Since then, she has dedicated many years to overseeing issues surrounding life and culture ...
In the early evening of Jan. 29, the statehouse dome glowed bright yellow for School Choice Week. Earlier that day, as both chambers of the General Assembly met, the rotunda bustled with uniformed schoolchildren, school administrators, religious officials and concerned parents. Though their dress code ...
Providence CityArts for Youth was honored Nov. 10 in Washington with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for being an outstanding after-school program for students who would not otherwise have access to quality art education. This year marked CityArts’ fourth attempt to secure the ...
In an effort to shift the discussion on education away from the “ivory tower of academics and policymakers,” Brown student organizations — Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment, Generation Citizen, Rhode Island Urban Debate League and the Providence Student Union — handed the discussion ...
Rhode Island’s public charter school network received high marks in a report issued by the National Alliance for Charter Schools Sept. 29, placing 10th out of 25 qualifying states and the District of Columbia and eliciting praise from experts in the field. Over 4 percent of the state’s 142,000 ...
A year after Rhode Island implemented Common Core across its public school systems, some parents and stakeholders in the debate have raised concerns about the initiative’s efficacy and interference with local control of education. But as activists in some school districts call for the ability to opt ...
A new teacher evaluation bill introduced by Rep. William O’Brien, D-North Providence, could spell the end of annual assessments of teachers in Rhode Island. Under the new system proposed by O’Brien, only teachers with poor efficacy ratings would be evaluated yearly. Teachers deemed “highly effective” ...
About four-fifths of undergraduates support standardized test scores playing either a small or moderate role in public high school graduation requirements, according to a Herald poll conducted Sept. 30 – Oct. 1. About 12 percent of respondents said standardized test scores should play no role in public ...
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has announced that if elected governor next year, he would expand the state’s pre-kindergarten program, with a goal of enrolling 76 percent of the state’s eligible children in pre-kindergarten by the end of his first term in office and accommodating all eligible students ...
Superintendent Susan Lusi presented her strategic plan to revitalize the Providence Public School District to about 50 community members, teachers and city council members Wednesday night at William D’Abate Elementary School. The bulk of the plan, Opening Doors to Our Children’s Futures, explains ...
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