Chronic social isolation poisons kids’ chances of academic success
Kids who don’t learn skills needed to connect with one as they grow up may…
Julia SteinyMay 11, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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