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The Rhode Island Foundation today announced it has awarded nearly $1.2 million in grants to improve student performance in Providence, Pawtucket, Newport and Central Falls. The funding will support work to increase the number of teacher s of color in urban school districts.  “Diversifying the teacher workforce in pursuit of the educational success of students is a strategy that works. These important investments will help address achievement gaps in urban districts by advancing programs designed to attract and support teachers of color,” said David N. Cicilline, president and CEO of the Foundation.  Research has shown benefits, particularly for students of color , when students are matched with a teacher of their same race. Low-income Black students, for example, who have at least one Black teacher  in elementary school are 29% less likely to drop out of high school, according to a Johns Hopkins report.  In the most recent RICAS resu...

Top teachers across the country say they face major hurdles in the classroom, many of which stem from closures during the COVID pandemic, a recent ABC News survey found. Top teachers across the country say they face major hurdles in the classroom -- including staffing shortages, the pinch of low pay and addressing students' mental health -- many of which stem from closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent ABC News survey found. "I think teachers are just the fabric of our communities," Rebecka Peterson, the 2023 educator of the year, told ABC News earlier this year. "And I think we have to think of big and small ways that we can wrap our arms around teachers and remind them how important they are to us individually and to us as communities." For this story, ABC News solicited responses from each state teacher of the year winner to see what they viewed as the greatest current challenge facing educators. 2023 Teacher of the Year, Rebecka Peterson. Lily Chris...