Michelin kicks off education challenge: Employees will serve as mentors, tutors in eights adopted schools in South Carolina. View full document.

A roadmap for making schools more useful by J. Chester Floyd and Cathy Stevens, click here.

To view an editorial written by Secretary Richard W. Riley: It's time to do school differently, click here.

RILEY INSTITUTE AT FURMAN RECEIVES
$150,000 GRANT FROM THE SYLVAN/LAUREATE FOUNDATION

The Richard W. Riley Institute at Furman University has received a $150,000 Sylvan/Laureate Foundation grant to support programs and research at its Center for Education Policy and Leadership. The center will use the money to continue its mission of reforming education policy in South Carolina, improving schools and providing more learning opportunities for students and teachers. The full press release is available here.

Following a presentation by the Riley Institute in Barnwell, South Carolina on findings from the Institute's education study, Barnwell community members got together to brainstorm solutions to problems within their county’s schools. To view an article that appeared in The People-Sentinel, click here.

Michelin North America donates to SC "Schools of the Future" project; Riley Institute is Partner on Project. The Riley Institute co-sponsored the event and is also a partner on the Inside-Out project. Inside-Out Centers for Learning build on the results of the Riley Institute's large statewide study of public education in South Carolina, directly addressing some of the strategies highlighted in the study as essential for improving our public schools. South Carolina was one of two states to receive this award. To view the news release, click here. To read more about the state of South Carolina's strong commitment to supporting state-wide reform, click here.

To view the article, Before the 'Either-Or' Era; Reviving Bipartisanship to Improve America's Schools by Richard W. Riley & Terry K. Peterson, click here.

HEWLETT FOUNDATION AWARDS RILEY INSTITUTE AT FURMAN ADDITIONAL $400,000 TO SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION STUDY

Grant brings total funding for Furman project to $1 million

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has awarded the Riley Institute at Furman University a $400,000 grant to support its continuing research and policy programming on public education in South Carolina. The full press release is available here; to view The Greenville News, article, click here.

To view an article, "State cannot afford just minimally adequate education" submitted by Paul Krohne and appeared in The Greenville News , click here.

Brooke Culclasure and Cathy Stevens were guests on National Public Radio's program "Speaking of Schools." To access this audio discussion about the Hewlett Study, click here. For more information, check the results page.

Andy Brack penned an article about the Hewlett project. Charleston Regional Business Journal

Editorials that have been written are available here and listed by the paper in which they appeared.

Charleston Post & Courier
The State
The Greenville News

The Riley Institute's Center for Education Policy and Leadership is proud to announce that after more than 3,000 hours of interviews with nearly 800 people representing every school district in South Carolina, the results are in for the largest and most comprehensive study ever done on public, K-12 education in the state. View the full press release here.

Several articles have been written around the state and are available here. They are listed by the paper in which they appeared.

Aiken Standard
The Greenville News
Charleston Post & Courier
The State
Sun News
Greenville Journal
The Times and Democrat

Editorials that have been written are available here and listed by the paper in which they appeared.

The Greenville News
Charleston Post and Courier

Cathy Stevens recently wrote an article on the project for Furman Magazine. Read it here.

Andy Brack penned an article for the SC Statehouse Report, click here to view.

The Charleston Regional Business Journal printed an article on the study; view it here.

The Riley Institute's Center for Education Policy and Leadership announced that it is conducting a comprehensive study of public education in SouthCarolina. Funded by a $600,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the study collected data through focus group and survey research. Participants were drawn from the primary stakeholder groups in the state's public education system, including business people, teachers, parents, students, principals, superintendents, and members of school boards. Research sessions were conducted in 16 locations around the state.

For the press release announcing the study, click here; for an executive summary of the study, click here; for the The Greenville News article, click here; for an editorial opinion in The Greenville News, click here; for The Post and Courier article, click here; for the Hilton Head Island Packet article, click here.