Opinion Charter school website is a huge step forward. Now for the bad news. Major kudos to the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) for putting all the public…Julia SteinyMarch 21, 2023
Opinion Improve schools at no cost to taxpayers: Ban phones According to research, the human brain cannot focus on two things at once. All thinking…Julia SteinyMarch 6, 2023
Opinion Tackle the underlying disease of RI’s education quality The RI Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) has boldly gone where politicians rarely dare to go. …Julia SteinyDecember 16, 2022
Uncategorized Empowered leader can help RI takeover of schools succeed. State takeovers don’t work. Researchers at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute examined takeovers starting in the…Julia SteinySeptember 29, 2022
Opinion Providence schools are structured to fail. In June 2019, a team from Johns Hopkins issued a stinging report on the Providence…Julia SteinyApril 14, 2022
Uncategorized We’re not teaching most kids to read. Date: March 22, 2022 As schools wrestle with finding some semblance of normal, remember that…Julia SteinyMarch 25, 2022
Opinion House bill further undermines public-school choice The House of Representatives passed H-6021, a bill professing “to level the playing field” between…Julia SteinyJuly 1, 2021
Uncategorized Getting to the root of bullying. Bullying is rarely as straight-forward as it seems. So how to handle it? One fine…Julia SteinyApril 19, 2021
Uncategorized The police should not be handling school discipline. Tay Anderson was a student and is now a graduate of the Denver Public Schools.…Julia SteinyApril 19, 2021
Restorative Justice Practices What do we want a justice system to accomplish? The modern judicial system and restorative justice (RJ) both aim to support public peace and…Julia SteinySeptember 10, 2020