Smithfield school Superintendent Robert O’Brien, left, Bryant University President Ron Machtley and town School Committee Chairman Richard Iannitelli, right, at the opening of a Smithfield High School classroom dedicated to Chinese studies. The high school and a town elementary school last week opened the nation's first Confucius Classrooms, in collaboration with Bryant’s Confucius Institute. /
Smithfield school Superintendent Robert O’Brien, left, Bryant University President Ron Machtley and town School Committee Chairman Richard Iannitelli, right, at the opening of a Smithfield High School classroom dedicated to Chinese studies. The high school and a town elementary school last week opened the nation’s first Confucius Classrooms, in collaboration with Bryant’s Confucius Institute.
