Charter schools perform comparatively well to public school districts, so why are they being punished…
Julia SteinySeptember 22, 2023
RI's zigzagging school measurement system yields unintended consequences and little valuable information. Beginning in 2006,…
Julia SteinyMay 2, 2023
Major kudos to the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) for putting all the public…
Julia SteinyMarch 21, 2023
According to research, the human brain cannot focus on two things at once. All thinking…
Julia SteinyMarch 6, 2023
The RI Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) has boldly gone where politicians rarely dare to go. …
Julia SteinyDecember 16, 2022
State takeovers don’t work. Researchers at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute examined takeovers starting in the…
Julia SteinySeptember 29, 2022
In June 2019, a team from Johns Hopkins issued a stinging report on the Providence…
Julia SteinyApril 14, 2022
Date: March 22, 2022 As schools wrestle with finding some semblance of normal, remember that…
Julia SteinyMarch 25, 2022
The House of Representatives passed H-6021, a bill professing “to level the playing field” between…
Julia SteinyJuly 1, 2021