Education in Rhode Island

Education in Rhode Island covers the public and private schools at all levels from the colonial era to the present.

History[edit]

Primary and secondary schools[edit]

Colleges and universities[edit]

Rhode Island has several colleges and universities:

See also[edit]

• History of education in the United States
• List of Rhode Island schools

Notes[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• CARBONE, HECTOR RICHARD. "THE HISTORY OF THE RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION AND THE RHODE ISLAND NORMAL SCHOOL AS AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF TEACHER EDUCATION, 1845-1920" (PhD dissertation, University of Connecticut; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1971. 7129849).

• Carroll, Charles. Public Education in Rhode Island (1918) online. Good scholarly history; 500pp.

• Coleman, Katari. "The Montessori Method in America: Montessori Schools in New York and Rhode Island From 1910-1940." (2011).online

• Hall, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of New England (2005)
• House Fiscal Advisory. "Rhode Island Education Aid." (State of Rhode Island General Assembly, 2011).online
• Perlmann, Joel. "Who stayed in school? Social structure and academic achievement in the determination of enrollment patterns, Providence, Rhode Island, 1880-1925." Journal of American History 72.3 (1985): 588-614. online
• Perlmann, Joel. "Curriculum and tracking in the transformation of the American high school: Providence, RI 1880-1930." Journal of Social History 19.1 (1985): 29-55. online

• Perlmann, Joel. Ethnic differences: Schooling and social structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American city, 1880-1935 (Cambridge University Press, 1988); major scholarly study of Providence, RI online

• Preston, Jo Anne. " 'He lives as a Master': Seventeenth-Century Masculinity, Gendered Teaching, and Careers of New England Schoolmasters." History of Education Quarterly 43.3 (2003): 350-371. online.

• Seitsinger, Anne M., et al. "State of Education in Rhode Island" (Providence: The National Center on Public Education and Social Policy, 2001). online

• Stockwell, Thomas B. A history of public education in Rhode Island: From 1636 to 1876 (1876) online.

• Tolman. William Howe. History of Higher Education in Rhode Island (1894) online good scholarly history, includes all levels of schooling; main focus is Brown University

• WILKINSON, JOHN JOSEPH.  "A HISTORY OF STATE SUPPORTED PROGRAMS FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN RHODE ISLAND AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE ON FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS (1872-1975)" (PhD dissertation,  University of Connecticut; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1982. 8216417).

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