On May 12, Deborah A. Gist, the Rhode Island commissioner of elementary and secondary education, added a new title to her name: doctor in educational leadership, from the University of Pennsylvania. more

The most recent state-level employment figures remind us that this economic recovery, like the recession that preceded it, is astonishingly uneven across the United States. more

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has created a three-person task force to conduct a review of its policies and procedures in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, Chancellor Divina Grossman announced Monday. more

Providence’s Classical High School and East Greenwich High School made Newsweek Magazine’s annual list of the top 1,000 high schools in the country. more

President Barack Obama freed eight states, including Rhode Island, from provisions of the No Child Left Behind education-testing law after they pledged to turn around low-performing schools and tie teacher evaluations to student achievement. more

Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah Gist praised WJAR-TV NBC10 and Hasbro Inc. for their support during the 2011-2012 school year in recognizing area teachers. more

Jane Williams recently attended the White House’s Joining Forces event, held at the University of Pennsylvania. Williams, who is the dean of Rhode Island College’s School of Nursing, was one of only 20 nursing deans nationwide invited to the event. While there, she also participated in a nursing-leadership summit. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in education from New York University and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Rhode Island. more

Imagine a private enterprise with the resources to make multimillion dollar investments on very high-profile parcels of land. more

Bridge Technical Solutions hosted a Spring Tech Symposium on Tuesday, May 8, which was open to the Rhode Island higher-education tech community and was a ‘resounding success,’ according to the company. more

Providence College broke ground on June 7 on its Ruane Center for the Humanities, which will be the home of its Development of Western Civilization and Liberal Arts honors programs upon completion in fall 2013. more