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The current curriculum being used to teach English language learners in Providence high schools is Springboard, an advanced placement [AP] prep program of studies designed for accelerated classes. It is not designed for struggling students, and especially not for those acquiring a new language. It is the equivalent of using Beowulf to teach kindergarten students how to read, according to Hope High School teacher Betsy Taylor. Why is it being used? Apparently because of the need to comply with a U.S. Department of Justice consent decree against Providence to teach English language learners
Will public education in RI become a corporate commodity?
PROVIDENCE – When I stepped up at Mayor Jorge Elorza’s news conference on Friday morning, July 19, held in front of Hope High School and, in an impromptu outburst, spoke what was on my … more
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The landscape of the Providence skyline and the new pedestrian bridge, now open to pedestrians.
To build an inclusive bridge into the future, honor the past
PROVIDENCE – Everyone was smiling. There were few discouraging words to be heard under a bright blue cloudless summer morning sky. [A few protesters on bicycles holding signs, worried about … more
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Author Toni Morrison seated on the bench dedicated in 2009 on the Oberlin, Ohio, town green in memory of all those former slaves who traveled through Oberlin on the Underground Railroad.
An interview with Toni Morrison from 1976
PROVIDENCE – In 2009, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison received a “Lifetime Achievement” award from the Norman Mailer Foundation. The ironic, if not iconic, image of Toni … more
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Dr. Frances Gallo, the interim superintendent of Providence Schools.
“Will is a very smart, cheap, renewable resource”
PROVIDENCE – At the end of her “official” first week on the job, ConvergenceRI sat down to talk with interim Providence School Superintendent Dr. Frances Gallo in her office, in … more
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Molly Tuttle, a rising star in the bluegrass world, joined the all-woman "The Collaboration" during Saturday night's closing performance at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival.
Young singer songwriters shape the future at Newport
NEWPORT – The long tradition of political involvement and protest represented by the Newport Folk Festival is destined to survive, if the outlook of several young singer-songwriters who … more
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Photo of Miles Davis from the inside cover of the album, Bitches Brew
The historical soundtrack for 1969
PROVIDENCE – There is so much to remember about 1969, a year when the tectonic plates of American society and culture moved far part and shook the foundations of our national identity, not … more
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