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Governor Dan McKee and Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green announced Monday that the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) has opened registration for the All Course Network (ACN), offering free learning opportunities for Pre-K through 12th-grade st

The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) on Friday released the final results of the 2022 Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System (RICAS).

Rhode Island elected and education officials announced this week that Rhode Island had the largest 10-year growth in the percentage of high school graduates taking an AP as well as the largest improvement in AP pass rates of any state over the past 10 and

PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, Rhode Island Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green and the College Board today announced that Rhode Island has the

As the United States and its schools enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, educators, and families are struggling to address everything from learning loss among K-12 students to new pressures befalling the country’s nearly 7 million adult learners. Increasingly, they are narrowing in on an old, but potentially now groundbreaking, intervention: tutoring.  There is a bipartisan push for expanding tutoring in schools, whether through a new national “tutoring corps,”...

As the United States and its schools enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, educators, and families are struggling to address everything from learning loss among K-12 students to new pressures befalling the country’s nearly 7 million adult learners. Increasingly, they are narrowing in on an old, but potentially now groundbreaking, intervention: tutoring.  There is a bipartisan push for expanding tutoring in schools, whether through a new national “tutoring corps,”...

Schoolhouse.world is an online platform that connects people around the world to free, small-group tutoring sessions. It currently offers tutoring in high school math and SAT prep, and aims to expand to more ages and topics soon.  Rhode Island students will be able to register for Schoolhouse.world through RIDE’s recently revamped All Course Network (ACN).  RIDE opened registration for the ACN last week, with triple the number of course offerings than the previous year, on a statewide educa...

The initiative is free to RI families. Schoolhouse.world was launched in early 2020 by Sal Khan, the founder of the Khan Academy online learning website, to help students who are falling behind due to COVID-19. Rhode Island is one of the first states in the country to partner with Schoolhouse.world to offer this free service for students statewide in grades 6-12. GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST Signing up for the website is quirky. And, it takes a few...

RI to offer free, online tutoring through partnership with Schoolhouse.world Linda Borg, The Providence Journal PROVIDENCE, RI – A partnership between the Rhode Island Department of Education and Schoolhouse.world, will pair students with tutors around the globe.  Schoolhouse.world was launched in early 2020 by Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy online learning website, to help students who are falling behind due to COVID-19.  According to the state Department of Educati...