Rebecca Duff, a kindergarten teacher Wakefield Elementary School, talks to her students after being named the “South Kingstown Teacher of the Year” during a surprise ceremony last week.

URI office of Strategic Initiatives and RIBBA graduate 25 from the emerging leaders development program for individuals who identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic or Latino, Indigenous, or multiracial.

The Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) has awarded The Alan Mandell Mentoring Award to Kathy Peno of the University of Rhode Island…

Project will train teachers of English language learners and empower women in rural communities.

The University of Rhode Island and Providence College have begun a collaborative project…

The Education Summit on Sept. 24-26, at the Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies, will examine formulating financial policy in light of research findings to maximize chances for school success.  Competing economic analyses have prompted generalizations about financial and human resource practices aimed to improve educational outcomes. Such generalizations suggest the need […]

The University of Rhode Island has appointed Danielle Dennis, an authority on reading, literacy, and professional development, as the new director of its School of Education located at the University’s Kingston Campus.

For the seventh year in a row, the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy will strive to educate participants on how literacy is changing as a result of emerging media and technologies.

The findings offer insight to higher education institutions toward increasing degree completion, and implications for how colleges can work to improve outcomes for students of color by focusing on the classroom experience.

Mike Taglienti, ’16, a 4th grade teacher at Fort Logan Northgate 3-8 School in Denver, Colorado, shares his experiences teaching in the diverse and underprivileged district of Sheridan, the town with the lowest annual income in Colorado.

Dr. Sweetman’s proposal creates virtual, interactive, site experiences for K-12 students with enhanced simulation through sensory perception that mirrors an actual physical site visit, to extend and deepen the student experience.

Thanks to this new partnership, students admitted to URI’s TESOL/Bilingual and Dual Language Immersion programs (with a focus on French) may be eligible for FIT Fellowships to support their graduate work.

Alexia Williams will travel to Spain this fall to teach English, thanks to a grant from the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program, which places recent college graduates in schools overseas to supplement local English language instruction and to provide a native speaker in the classrooms.

Two URI researchers used grant funding to outfit three classrooms at West Kingston Elementary School with equipment that allows children to be in motion while they learn, then studied the effects on learning and language over a four week period.