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The post-World War II growth and massive government subsidization of America’s suburbs is an often-told tale. But in his new book Disillusioned, education journalist Benjamin Herold offers a grim, cautionary afterword for the 21st Century. Staring down the nearly 80-year history of modern suburbia, Herold finds that the effort produced mostly “disposable communities” across the […]

Parents are more concerned than ever about their kids’ social media habits, worried about everything from oversharing and cyberbullying to anxiety, depression, sleep and study time. Recent surveys of young people show that parents’ concerns may be justified: More than half of U.S. teens spend at least four hours a day on these apps. Girls, […]

Now three years since COVID’s first classroom closures and a year before districts start to feel the true impact of the fiscal cliff, 2023 marked a pivotal moment for students and schools across America. Fresh scores revealed the stalled state of learning recovery. Educators warned about an escalating chronic absenteeism crisis that has seen students […]

For K–12 education, 2023 was a year spent over a threshold. Schools had one foot in the shutdown era, still struggling to restore a sense of normalcy that disappeared in 2020. A steep rise in behavioral and disciplinary issues, which many teachers hoped would be only the temporary product of COVID’s generational disruption to routines, […]

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For more than 27 years, this legendary Providence institution has devoted itself to placing students "in an environment where they want to work."

Teachers are ‘coaches,’ classes are ‘workshops’ and students get treated as adults in a school where traditional instruction gets turned on its head.   Boise, Idaho As high school seniors across the nation crammed for finals last spring, Abella Cathey was in her glory, enjoying a warm spring day as she joined a group of … ‘Meaningful, Big Things’ at One Stone, the Student-Led High School of Invention Read More »

“Patients have better outcomes when they are cared for by nurses who are from their community,” said Pamela McCue, a registered nurse and CEO at R.I. Nurses Institute Middle College Charter High School, in Providence.

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