Education
According to the Sakonnet Times, the Tiverton teachers’ union is softening its demands in the face of fiscal reality. I note, also, that according to an RI Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education table published in the Providence Journal, not a single Tiverton school had sufficient performance or progress to merit commendation after the last…
Matt Jerzyk of RI Future believes that declines in student population in Central Falls and Providence are due to foreclosures…Speaking of questionable analysis, it is absolutely outrageous to me that anyone can get away with saying that significant drops in school enrollment in Central Falls and Providence are a result of the right-wing’s anti-immigrant activism…
Obviously, the two articles aren’t in direct opposition, and I’m not suggesting that one presents anything nearing an argument against the other, but the two felt related, so perhaps they’re worth juxtaposing. First, AP education writer Nancy Zuckerbrod’s memoirish piece comparing early childhood education in the England versus the United States: The head teacher and…
No doubt it’s healthy and productive for schools to seek to mimic those fading opportunities for group gatherings and discussion, but Julia Steiny’s column on “circles” at the Paul Cuffee Charter School carries a hint of the “war on boys.” This part is particularly creepy: The power of circles to reintegrate wrongdoers back into the…
Ah, the magic of the Lincoln compromise: Despite these tensions, Lincoln is an example of what a community can accomplish, even when money is scarce, says [Larry] Purtill, president of NEARI. “What Lincoln shows is that both sides were willing, in a tough financial environment, to find a way to make sure that they reach…
With my children not yet to the age at which I might have to consider battles with their teachers for their young mathematical souls, my opinion of the “new math” isn’t sufficiently strong to inspire rants. Still, such statements as the following raise fundamental questions: One problem, [Pat Cooney, math coordinator for six public schools…
It appears that the collapse of the Education Partnership may have more to it than a drying up of revenue: The Education Partnership, an advocacy organization backed by local businesses, went into receivership last month, in part because several contracts to produce research and reports for municipalities and school districts fell through, said Shine. He…
I missed this (and this) back in May (h/t Matt J.), but it’s worth noting that RI’s compulsory High School Capstone Projects are being eyeballed across the country, according to a ProJo report about a symposium convened to discuss RI’s program. Some states are considering the merits of adding such student exhibitions to their own…
A year ago it was North Providence interim-Mayor John Sisto who was the honorary chair of the movement to allow relatives of Rhode Island pols to attend the public school of their choice, free of charge. This election cycle, according to a Gerry Goldstein report in this week’s Valley Breeze, it looks like Smithfield Town…
This will come as a surprise to those (non-insiders) who follow Rhode Island’s public policy debates; from Jennifer D. Jordan of the Projo…The Education Partnership, a nonprofit advocacy organization that produced reports and consulted with local school districts, has closed its doors and filed for receivership in Superior Court, unable to pay its bills…. “The…
