The impending closure of a small Rhode Island high school has prompted some rare pushback: Spanish-speaking families have brought a federal class-action lawsuit against the Providence Public School District, Providence School Board, state Department of Education and state education commissioner under the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974. With an argument that traces a direct […]
This year’s legislative session had an important mark of distinction: more early learning bills were filed than in any other session… ever. Champions from both political parties actively supported the cause, generating both optimism and momentum. Often, good policy takes years to pass; among the 1,900 bills filed this session, only 325 passed both chambers. […]
After getting his learner’s permit, Corey Harris did a celebratory dance outside Michigan’s Secretary of State’s office Dionne Webster-Cox Corey Harris with his learner’s permit, outside Michigan’s Secretary of State’s office. Corey Harris has – famously – been driving for a while now. He just didn’t have a license. The Michigan man went viral last […]
Mar. 2—GROTON — Kids in a transitional kindergarten class at Thames River Magnet School on a recent afternoon made pizza and salad at a play kitchen, drew and cut out hearts from construction paper, and built towers for a marble game. Teacher Meg Walker said that while to the students, it’s just playing ― there […]
Feb. 25—Editor’s note: In this two-day series, we profile people who have recently moved to the Norwich and New London area eager to learn English and better their lives, and the professionals dedicated to teaching English to school-age children and adults. Norwich — Norwich Free Academy bilingual teacher Jessica Chapman made a quick line drawing […]
Emily Elliot Gaffney believes that many students enter kindergarten “without a lot of hands-on experience with numbers,” causing some to fall behind. Without a foundational understanding of the relationship between numbers and quantities, Gaffney says, some students begin school “believing that math is almost a foreign language where they need to memorize answers to equations […]
California will specially designate at least $2 billion to spend on learning recovery for disadvantaged students who fell behind during the pandemic, according to a legal settlement reached last week. The agreement — which will not require the state to raise or spend new revenues — serves as a partial validation of complaints from thousands […]