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In PVD Schools, Is AI a Tool or a Crutch?
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In the United States today, only one student in four at any grade level is proficient in writing. This has been the case for decades. Is it something about the way they are taught? Is it the effect of social media on their concentration? Experts [...]

10
Sep
George Washington crossed the Delaware–and the Seekonk River, too
Spanning the Seekonk River: Bridges Over Troubled Waters?
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Just mentioning the word “bridge” in or around Providence is likely to evoke horror stories about earth-shattering traffic delays. Since the westbound lanes of the present Washington Bridge were abruptly closed in December 2023, following the discovery that it was in danger of imminent collapse, [...]

05
Feb
1827 engraving by J.P. Murphy of Snowtown (in foreground) on the shores of the Great Salt Cove.
History Under Our Feet: Unearthing Providence’s Past
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Did you know there was a prison under the Providence Place Mall, an early customs house below Hemenway’s Restaurant on South Water Street, or a red-light district beneath the Providence train station?  In the winter of 1981-1982, architectural historian Myron Stachiw worked on a site [...]

04
Sep
British suffragette chained to avoid arrest.
Civics Education is the Lifeblood of Democracy
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Do we believe our votes make any difference? Are those who fought to extend the franchise to the landless, the formerly enslaved, to women, to Native Americans and others, forgotten? My great great Aunt Harriet, in her mid-forties, chained herself to the railings outside the [...]

19
Jun