Opinion The sound of silence on charter schools in R.I. is deafening. Janie Segui Rodriguez was so frustrated with the long wait to enroll her daughter in…Julia SteinyApril 15, 2024
Opinion How Rhode Island College went to the head of the class on reading instruction Karen Ramirez graduated from Rhode Island College with a teacher certification in secondary English Language…Julia SteinyApril 3, 2024
Opinion Right to Read Act puts Rhode Island ahead of many states. With zero dollars to do the work. Reading education in Rhode Island is backed up by a bold law called the Right…Julia SteinyMarch 19, 2024
Opinion School accountability is not punishment. Confusing the two makes matters worse. When school accountability measures lean towards the punitive, resentment and anger ensues, but not much…Julia SteinyFebruary 28, 2024
Opinion Rhode Island’s Right to Read Act’s big champion: A legislator who once struggled to read Dyslexia is a learning disorder involving difficulty identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate…Julia SteinyFebruary 8, 2024
Opinion Rhode Island needed a shove to improve the way kids are taught to read. This law is doing it. ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham,’ a historical fiction novel set in 1963, builds middle-school reading…Julia SteinyJanuary 22, 2024
Opinion States are turning to legal mandates to change reading instruction. Here’s why. Children who learn to identify letters and sound out words are much more likely to…Julia SteinyDecember 28, 2023
Opinion The reading wars are over. Who won and what now? A student manipulates phonemes by using the letter combination ‘ch’ at the beginning, middle and…Julia SteinyNovember 17, 2023
Opinion A Pawtucket school where guidance is great. Rachael Okpara is shown on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass., where she is…Julia SteinyNovember 2, 2023
Opinion The little law that could make a big difference in Rhode Island public schools One state senator’s novel idea led to new seven-day waiting period before ratifying a school…Julia SteinyOctober 13, 2023