Why Gov. McKee’s Learn 365 RI ducks real K-12 school reform
Image by Gerd AltmanImage by Gerd Altman Learn 365 can’t change the outcomes of the…
Julia SteinyJune 22, 2023
The SAT is a terrible test for measuring high school accountability.
RI switches tests in high school, making growth impossible to measure. Why do that? …
Julia SteinyMay 2, 2023
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
Improve schools at no cost to taxpayers: Ban phones
Even the U.S. Surgeon General says that phones and social media “a profound risk of…
Julia SteinyMarch 6, 2023
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
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
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
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
We’re not teaching most kids to read.
Photo: "Children reading c.1960 'Celebrating World Book Day'" by Archives New Zealand is licensed under…
Julia SteinyMarch 22, 2022
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