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.

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.

Bobby Macaux of East Greenwich and Katie Lowe of Warwick were named the 2016 URI Council for Exceptional Children Outstanding Advocates.