Education
As people newly look up from their lives to wonder about the craziness with which we’re surrounded — from collegiate support for Hamas to economic ignorance to scientific illiteracy to an inability to grapple with logic — they should turn their gaze toward our schools. Consider this recent Boston Globe column from Dan McGowan: The state’s most…
A recent teapot tempest in the Censorship Wars (at least the skirmishes over keeping arguably pornographic and sex-promoting work out of elementary school libraries) has to do with parents’ objecting to a graphic novel version of Ann Frank’s diary. You can dig multiple layers into the story, though, for a more-full picture. The first layer,…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review several of the dead ends to progress in the Ocean State.
I know of at least one Massachusetts town where these new residents are about to enter an understaffed school system en masse. Even more, they are getting free preschool and free transportation to preschool, which for residents is an additional cost that some are deciding is too expensive. We need to understand — and explain…
Current Rhode Island public school policy on transgender and gender nonconforming students was formally passed as a regulation in April 2018 by the Council on Elementary and Secondary Education and then-Education Commissioner Ken Wagner under the authority of the governor. Anchor Rising made the following inquiry by e-mail last month of the Rhode Island Council…
A crucial bit of advice in our quick-communication, social-media age is to force yourself to leave space between reading something that bothers you and responding to it. Usually, this tactic will help you avoid responding heatedly to things that simply don’t matter that much. Sometimes, you’ll avoid unforced interpersonal errors. But sometimes, giving things further…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss top political stories in Rhode Island.
John DePetro and Justin Katz explore the increasingly disconnected behavior of RI’s political elite.
An entirely plausible interpretation of events sounds crazy, suggesting we all have an interest in pushing back and enforcing accountability for those who’ve brought us to this point.
Announcing the move of his cable news show to Twitter, Tucker Carlson suggests that most of what mainstream journalists report is factually true, but their stories are chosen and constructed so as to paint a completely false image of reality. Take Rhode Island education as an example. As long as I’ve been following the story, government-run…
