Impacts & Insights

Education
01 Dec 2022

Reach Out and Read RI Provides Culturally and Developmentally Relevant Books

Walk into most pediatricians’ offices in Rhode Island and you are likely to see a waiting ...

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Education
01 Dec 2022

First Generation College Students Find Their Path Through College Visions

Yuselly Mendoza’s parents emigrated to Rhode Island from Guatemala with hopes of giving their children a ...

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Education
31 Aug 2022

2022 POC Law School Scholarship

Women. Immigrants. First generation college students. Yelitza Montesino and Dania Polanco, both summa cum laude graduates ...

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Education
19 Jul 2022

Brown Urban Education Fellowship

When Daaé Ransom was in kindergarten, the magnet school she attended in Massachusetts was filled with ...

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Education
26 Jan 2022

CLRI

Britney Fernandez was just four years-old when she witnessed grandfather’s arrest. “He was thrown to the ...

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Education
20 Dec 2021

Providence Promise increases enrollment, serves more families

The youngest participant enrolled in Providence Promise hasn’t taken the SATS, filled out a financial aid ...

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Education
11 Sep 2021

RI Philharmonic School

Every child has the right to a complete education. But not all students, especially BIPOC students ...

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Education
30 Aug 2021

Brown Urban Education Fellowship

Sylvio Gario never imagined he would want to become a teacher. Gario immigrated from the small ...

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Education
30 Aug 2021

Smart Health Clinic

Students in some Providence Public Schools no longer have to leave school or stay home from ...

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