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Rhode Island Teacher Takes To YouTube To Say, 'I Quit'

2012-12-18T10:06:16Z

A second-grade teacher in Providence, R.I., has issued a very public resignation that is making its rounds online.

"I've had it, I quit," Stephen R...

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Teacher Fired For Punishing Students In The Cold

2012-11-22T12:41:58Z

A Rhode Island substitute teacher has been fired after he reportedly sent two third-grade children out in the cold as punishment for talking in class....

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School Committee Asks State Lawmakers To Allow Father-Daughter, Mother-Son School Dances

2012-09-25T10:00:02Z

CRANSTON, R.I. -- The Cranston School Committee is asking state lawmakers to change Rhode Island law to allow father-daughter dances and mother-son ba...

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District Bans Father-Daughter, Mother-Son School Dances

2012-09-18T08:30:29Z

CRANSTON, R.I. — A Rhode Island schools superintendent has ended the district's father-daughter dances and mother-son ballgames to comply with a...

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Providence Public School District Reinvents Summer School

2012-08-22T07:46:58Z

In an effort to reduce the academic gap between wealthy and poor students, a Providence, R.H., program is reinventing summer school, PBS NewsHour educ...

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Duncan: Looming Cuts 'Playing Chicken With The Lives Of The American People'

2012-07-25T17:07:21Z

Schools, HIV testing, childcare and unemployment programs are all "under threat" as across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, are scheduled to st...

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Nancy Carriuolo: Preparing Students For A Lifetime Of Success

2012-06-27T17:53:34Z

We do not just train students for particular jobs; we prepare them for a lifetime of change and adaptation and provide them with the most important skill of all: the skill to learn new skills.

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Failing Students At Rhode Island Middle School Allowed to Graduate

2012-06-13T11:41:20Z

Dozens of eighth graders at Rhode Island’s Calcutt Middle School who failed two to three of their core classes of math, science, English and social ...

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Peter Cipparone: Standing on the Shoulders of Schools Around Us

2012-06-07T11:27:05Z

In a divisive education policy conversation which pits one set of schools and politicians against another, educators must lead the charge to learn from other schools. We must stand on the shoulders of those who work alongside us.

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Thomas Fisher: SEEDing a New Kind of STEM

2012-05-08T14:54:52Z

The STEM fields do indeed contribute to our technology-based economy, but whether they do so for good or ill depends upon how we grow these new educational shoots and to what end.

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Meryl Streep Donates $10,000 To Struggling Rhode Island Charter School

2012-02-28T10:43:41Z

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Meryl Streep has donated $10,000 to a charter school in the struggling Rhode Island city of Central Falls after a plug from fellow...

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Caitlin Barry: Defining 'Media Literacy'

2012-02-07T15:17:46Z

Few educators would argue against the importance of using media and technology in the classroom. Yet, we have made very little progress in implementing any media literacy curriculum on a national, or even statewide, level.

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Federal Judge Orders Removal Of Prayer Mural In Rhode Island School

2012-01-12T09:23:53Z

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal judge has ordered the immediate removal of a prayer mural displayed in the auditorium of a Rhode Island public high scho...

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Student Sues School To Remove Prayer Banner, Says Her Case Is 'Very Strong'

2011-10-13T21:19:42Z

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 16-year-old atheist said Thursday she is confident the law is on her side in her fight over a prayer mural that she wants remove...

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Rhode Island OKs In-State Tuition For Undocumented Students

2011-09-27T12:52:38Z

Undocumented high school students graduating from Rhode Island schools will be able to take advantage of the state's in-state tuition program beginnin...

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Rhode Island OKs In-State Tuition For Undocumented Students

2011-09-27T12:30:53Z

Undocumented high school students graduating from Rhode Island schools will be able to take advantage of the state's in-state tuition program beginnin...

WATCH: 48 Hours Special 'Bullying: Words Can Kill'

2011-09-18T13:50:13Z

As students are heading back to school for the start of a new year of learning, for many, the focus is beyond the scope of the textbook.

Every day...

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Leonie Haimson: Obama's Speech to Congress: So Why Am I Skeptical?

2011-09-11T21:40:50Z

We've witnessed several years of this administration generally unconcerned about rising class sizes and teacher layoffs. The truth is that for the past two years, their priorities have pointed in an entirely different direction.

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Daniel Grant: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Dual-Degree Programs

2011-08-01T11:07:02Z

"Smart" and "cool" needn't be kept apart, and many smart kids who want to be artists and artistic kids who want a rigorous academic program have been frustrated by the need to make a choice.

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Adam Goldstein: Helpful Or Harmful? Rhode Island Bans Facebook In Schools

2011-06-27T13:32:55Z

You might be of the view that social media sites have revolutionized the way that people learn from each other. But if you are, you probably aren't serving in the legislature of Rhode Island.

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Daniel Grant: For-Profit Art Schools on the Rise

2011-05-24T16:12:34Z

Art, we are told again and again, is a business, but teaching art is also a business. For a growing number of artists, professional training is taking...

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Detroit's Mass Teacher Layoffs May Prove Bellwether For Education Reform Nationwide

2011-04-19T17:32:54Z

When districtwide layoff notices hit every one of Detroit Public Schools’ 5,466 unionized employees late last week, an American Federation of Teache...

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Nationwide Pink Slip Purgatory Puts Teachers' Lives On Hold

2011-04-01T13:24:28Z

This year was not the first in which Monica Iñiguez, a 4th grade teacher at Noble Avenue Elementary, in Los Angeles, received a pink slip.

But it is...

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School Board Votes To Send Termination Letter To Every Single Teacher

2011-02-25T08:56:27Z

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The mayor insisted Friday that the vast majority of Providence teachers wouldn't lose their jobs even though the school distr...

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John Thompson: Cooperation, Collaboration, and Consensus-Building Are Not Overated

2011-01-20T12:38:19Z

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and AFT President Randi Weingarten are not the only union leaders who are bending over backwards to help reform education.

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