RIDE awards grants to four local schools partnering with URI to advance multilingual learner initiatives - The Rhode Island Department of Education has awarded $81,429 to four local school districts that will partner with the URI's TESOL/BDL faculty to increase educational success and student outcomes for speakers of other languages.- URI launches cohort to train school leaders in multilingual learner (MLL) education - The University of Rhode Island’s School of Education, in collaboration Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), is launching the state’s first cohort to train administrators in multilingual learner education, beginning in the fall.
- URI School of Education breaks into top 100 among best public graduate schools by 2021 - The School of Education in URI’s Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies has ranked number 94 among public research universities nationally by the 2021 U.S. News & World Report listing of Best Public Graduate Schools for Education.
Education Summit 2019 - 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 […]
University of South Florida professor named new director of URI’s School of Education - 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.
URI’s 7th annual Summer Institute in Digital Literacy emphasizes collaboration - 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.- URI’s School of Education receives $1.2 million to prepare science, math teachers for high need school districts - URI is the only institution of higher education in Rhode Island to be awarded a national Noyce scholarship program for STEM teacher preparation.
Study provides insight into racial microaggressions in the college classroom - 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.
URI alum, now teaching in Colorado, writes about amplifying student voices - 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.
Elementary education professor receives URI Research Bridge Fund award - 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.
